Computer Operating

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Course Title: Computer Operating

Course Code: 33011

Teaching Hours: 2 x 16 = 32

Course Overview

The ability to use a personal computer (PC) is virtually essential to all majors, jobs and careers. The course is designed to assure a basic level of computer applications literacy to include word processing, spreadsheet, presentation software(PPT etc), excel, database, e-mail and Internet utilization. The course is divided into two areas of learning. First, the lectures in this course are intended to teach you about personal computer concepts and applications. You will learn about different types of PCs, PC operating systems and user interfaces, popular classes of PC applications and tools used to build PC applications. Second, the laboratory provides instructor-assisted, hands-on experience with some standard PC applications - specifically the Microsoft Office Suite. Make it your goal not to merely learn these packages. Your eventual employer(s) may use different packages. Therefore, be sure to learn:

    1) The concepts behind word processing, spreadsheets, etc.

    2) The types of problems to which each application can be applied

    3) The general problem solving approach