This course covers computer skills and concepts essential to success at a university. Specific applications are the Microsoft Office Suite of tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. The course material is based on Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003. Each week lecture meets for 250 minutes. Prerequisite: none. 5 quarter units. 5 units lecture (250 minutes). Service Course None - all material is online. None. Donna Meyers This course covers the following student learning outcomes:

Basic computer literacy.

This course maps to the following performance indicators for Computer Literacy:

Ability to use a word processor at an intermediate level

Create a document using spell-check, find and replace, tabs, outlines, footnotes, columns and graphics

Ability to analyze a problem and produce a spreadsheet with corresponding charts

Create a spreadsheet to compute average, interest rates and IF functions, create pie and bar charts

Ability to create a slide presentation

Understand basic layouts and use of graphics

Ability to create a simple relational database

Understand tables, relations, and queries

Week 1	Unit 1	Basic Work Processing & Email
Week 2	Unit 2	Intermediate Word Processing
Week 3	Unit 3	Graphics & Desktop Publishing
Week 4	Unit 4	Introduction to Spreadsheets
Week 5	Unit 5	Excel Functions & Database Features
Week 6	Unit 6	Excel Charts
Week 7	Unit 7	Creating PowerPoint Presentations
Week 8	Unit 8	Introduction to DBMS Concepts
Week 9	Unit 9	Creating Table Relationships in Access
Week 10	TAKE HOME FINAL

                            
                                    A   90%
    10 HW/Labs...70%                B   80%
                                    C   70%
    Final Exam...30%                D   60%
                                    D-  50%
                                    F  below 50% 

Basic Computer Literacy: 5 Credit Hours
Donna Meyers on June 1, 2014 Approved by CEE/CS Department on June 1, 2014.
Effective Fall 2014