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Course Cost:
$150.00 + cost of the textbook
Credit:
.5
Course Materials:
"Microsoft
Office 2003: Introductory Course”,
Thomson Course Technology
ISBN 13: 978-0-619-18339-4 © 2005
ISBN 10: 0-619-18339-X
Publish date: August 27, 2004
This textbook is required and may be obtained independently or purchased
from Thomson Course Technology: Phone 800.354.9706
You may also order your textbook online from MBS Direct. To go to the
virtual bookstore, click on the graphic below.
The student must also have a computer that meets the C-FB Virtual Campus
Technical Requirements, with licensed copies of Microsoft Word 2003 and
Microsoft Excel 2003.
Course Description:
The first semester of BCIS offers students Introductory Concepts,
Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. The step-by-step textbook used for
this course will enable the user to learn the basics of the software in
a very easy way. Along with completion of lessons from the textbook,
students will be evaluated through completion of assessments evaluating
comprehension and production capabilities.
The following lessons will be covered in
Introductory Concepts:
Basic Computer Knowledge and File Management, Proofreading Marks,
Punctuation and Spacing, Capitalization, and Personal Business and
Business Letters.
The following units will be covered in
Word: Word Basics, Basic
Editing, Helpful Word Features, Formatting Text, Formatting Paragraph
and Documents, Working with Graphics, and Working with Documents.
The following units will be covered in
Excel: Excel Basics,
Changing the Appearance of a Worksheet, Organizing the Worksheet,
Worksheet Formulas, Function Formulas, Making the Worksheet Useful,
Working with Multiple Worksheets, and Worksheet Charts.
BCIS Semester 1
Objectives:
Academic Integrity:
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Define
terms related to academic integrity: e.g. plagiarism, cheating,
paraphrasing, quoting, citing, public domain, fair use, academic
dishonesty, copyright, attribution, citation, endnote, footnote,
self-plagiarism, peer review, contract plagiarism
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Learn
and adhere to guidelines for avoiding academic dishonesty
- Recognize
and practice proper attribution and citation
Introductory Concepts
Upon successful completion,
the student will be able to:
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Identify basic computer components and their functions
-
Group
files into logical groups based on a common characteristic
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Apply
knowledge of proofreader marks when editing documents
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Apply
punctuation, spacing, and capitalization rule
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Format
and create personal business letters and business letters
MS Word
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
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Learn
Word basics
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Apply
basic editing techniques
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Use
Word effectively with helpful Word features
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Formatting
text, paragraphs, and documents
- Effectively
work with graphics and long documents
MS Excel
Upon successful completion, the student will
be able to:
- Learn
Excel basics
-
Changing
the appearance of a worksheet
-
Organizing
the worksheet
-
Create
worksheet formulas
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Create
function formulas
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Make
the worksheet useful work with multiple worksheets
-
Develop
worksheet charts
Course
Activities:
- Unit Assignments (Daily Work)
- Projects and Unit Assessments
(Tests)
- Final Exam
Students will perform step by step
activities and self check their final products. They will then do
all the required projects for that lesson. Once they have finished
the projects they take a short quiz (review questions). At the end
of the review questions, they will be asked to submit the projects. The
students will submit Production assessments as mid-unit and
unit-culminating activities, and will have a final exam. |
