Computer Applications Technology

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Computers are now an integral part of our business, educational, and personal lives. We need to access vast amounts of information and manage, utilize, analyze, and disseminate this information in a timely manner, which is one key to success in virtually every profession.

Learning Outcomes

• Communicate effectively through written, verbal, and visual methods.
• Work collaboratively and independently to achieve a defined goal.
• Demonstrate use of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and the Windows Operating System.
• Distinguish between hardware and software; determine the type of software necessary to complete an objective; understand the functions of an operating system.
• Access information from a hard or removable drive; locate information in subdirectories.
• Access a variety of Windows ribbons and icons
• Use spreadsheet software to solve mathematical/ quantitative problems.
• Format and edit documents using word processing software. Manage, organize, and store related sets of information using database software.
• Create and modify slide show presentations
• Perform file management and use the web.
• Solve problems using the appropriate software; apply systematic approaches and logic to solving problems; troubleshoot problems; collect and apply data to solve problems.
• Communicate findings in the form of printed documents, create and interpret graphs and charts using appropriate software, and synthesize and apply information to meet an identified need.
• Ask questions and give answers using discipline-specific vocabulary.
• Translate math symbols into words and words into math symbols.
• Utilize electronic technology, including accessing information from various sources.

Gainful Employment
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