SECTION: CMPA-160 -E80
COURSE TITLE: COMPUTER BASICS: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
CREDIT HOURS: 3 credits
PREREQUISITE: OFFS-100 Basic Keyboarding Skills (can be concurrent, completed, or challenged)
Distance Education

This course covers the most important computer literacy topics including a fundamental understanding of computer hardware (input, output, processing, and storage), and software (systems, applications, and productivity); using operating systems and common program functions; a practical study of the Internet (e-mail, Internet search techniques; resource evaluation and citations); a practical study of common productivity software (word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation); and an understanding of the implications and effects of computers in our social order. Cmptr Basics: Concepts & Apps DISTANCE EDUCATION.

 

SECTION: WEBS-324 -E80
COURSE TITLE: WEB AUTHORING
CREDIT HOURS: 4 credits
PREREQUISITES: PROG-109
Distance Education

This course focuses on the advanced features of web authoring: incorporating frames and enhanced layout, designing user input forms, uploading web pages, multimedia and creating image maps. Web scripting will be introduced. Commercial packages for web page design will be discussed and used in this course. A lab is required with this course. WEBS-324-E80 Web Authoring DISTANCE EDUCATION.

CMPA160 Course Objectives and Competencies

Course Objectives	Competencies
1.   To acquire an understanding of computer hardware and software.	1.   Identify types of computers, how they process information, and how individual computers interact with other computing systems and devices. 2.   Identify the function of computer hardware components. 3.   Identify the factors that go into an individual or organizational decision on how to purchase computer equipment 4.   Identify how to maintain computer equipment and solve common problems relating to computer hardware. 5.   Identify how software and hardware work together to perform computing tasks and how software is developed and upgraded. 6.   Identify different types of software, general concepts relating to software categories, and the tasks to which each type of software is most suited or not suited.
2.   To acquire basic skills and knowledge of operating systems.	1.   Identify what an operating system is and how it works. 2.   Solve common problems related to operating systems. 3.   Manipulate and control the Windows desktop, files, disks, and drives. 4.   Identify how to change system settings, install, and remove software 5.   Perform common utility functions.
3.   To acquire basic skills with common program functions.	1.   Demonstrate ability to start and exit a Windows application and utilize sources of online help. 2.   Identify common on-screen elements of Windows applications, change application settings, and manage files within an application 3.   Perform common editing and formatting functions. 4.   Perform common printing functions.
4.   To acquire basic skills with word processing functions.	1.   Demonstrate ability to format text and documents including the ability to use automatic formatting tools. 2.   Demonstrate ability to insert, edit, and format tables in a document. 3.   Demonstrate ability to create, format, proofread, and submit formal research paper with footnotes and citations.
5.   To acquire basic skills with spreadsheet functions.	1.   Identify the purpose of spreadsheets and the anatomy of a spreadsheet. 2.   Demonstrate ability to modify worksheet data and structure and format data in a worksheet. 3.   Demonstrate ability to sort data, manipulate data using formulas and functions, and add and modify charts in a worksheet.
6.   To acquire basic skills with database functions.	1.   Identify purpose of database software. 2.   Demonstrate ability to create a database, modify the table structure, enter data into a table, print a table, and sort a table. 3.   Demonstrate ability to query a database. 4.   Demonstrate ability to create and use forms and reports.
7.   To acquire basic skills with presentation software.	1.   Demonstrate the ability to create, format, and present well formatted presentations in group settings.
8.   To acquire basic skills with networks, the Internet, and Electronic Mail.	1.   Identify network fundamentals and the benefits and risks of network computing. 2.   Identify the relationship between computer networks, other communications networks (like telephone network) and the Internet. 3.   Identify the background and relationship of the Internet and the World Wide Web. 4.   Demonstrate ability to use electronic mail and its most common features, i.e., “netiquette,” address books, signatures, attachments. 5.   Demonstrate ability to identify different types of information sources on the Internet. 6.   Demonstrate ability to use a Web browser application and its most common features. 7.   Demonstrate ability to search the Internet for information using different search engines and tolls and techniques for searching the Web. 8.   Demonstrate ability to evaluating information found on the Internet. 9.   Identify types of Internet resources. 10. Demonstrate an understanding of the rules of copyright and other legal and ethical issues.
9.   To acquire an understanding of the impact of computing and the Internet on society.	1.   Identify how computers are used in different areas of work, school, and home. 2.   Identify the risks of using computer hardware and software. 3.   Identify how to use computers and the Internet safely, legally, and responsibly.