COURSE TITLE/CODE : COMputer Application PACkage1 (COMPAC1)

COURSE CREDIT : Three (3) Units

COURSE DESCRIPTION :

This is an introductory course for business students that introduce the basic computer concepts. This course is also designed to provide students with a broad understanding of Internet, and provide an initial description of Microsoft Windows environment and an application of MS Office 97 like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the course, the students are expected to be abler to:

Identify the major components of a computer system and their functions; explain the principle of an operating system.

Learn the basic DOS and Windows commands, operate MS Window independently.

Generate a high quality written report using MS-Word summarizing the results of their research, present the research paper using MS PowerPoint.

Use of MS Excel (electronic spreadsheet) in business application as applied to accounting documents requiring such needs as accounting, currency, and computational operations.

Identify the basic mathematical tools and operations involved in investment problems and in other basic financial transactions.

Appreciate the use of Internet as their research tools, and the trends in Information Technology.

1.0 Introduction to Computers

Course Requirements and Classroom/Computer Laboratory Policies

The Computer System (Hardware, Software, Peopleware & Procedures),

Classifications of Computers, Evolution of Computers,

Conversion of Number System

2.0 Disk Operating System vs. Windows Explorer

DOS Definition, Booting, Prompts, Filenames, Extensions, Delimeters and Wildcards, DOS Internal and External Commands, Protecting Files from Viruses, Windows Environment Concepts (GUI), Features of Windows 3.11, Some Aspects of Windows ’95 and Office ’97

3.0 MS Word

Introduction to MS-Word, Basic Key Terms and their basic functions, Basic MS Word (The Tip of the Day, Entering Text, Editing Text, Saving, Opening and Closing a Document, Exiting Winword, Help), Navigating through your document (using the Basic Arrow Keys, using CTRL with the Arrow keys, navigating with the Scroll Bars), Text Blocks (Copying and pasting a Block, Cutting and Pasting a Block, Deleting a Block), Find and Replace (Finding text, Find and Replace, Find and Delete), Formatting (Formatting Characters, Formatting Sentences and Paragraphs, Formatting Pages and Documents, Using Tables and Columns), Printing Documents, Using Toolbars, Mail Merge

4.0 MS-PowerPoint

Introduction to MS-PowerPoint, Basic Key Terms and their special functions, Overbview of presentations and slides, Introduction to the presentation software, Working with Layouts Rearranging, deleting and inserting Slides, Using Templates, Build and Transition effects, Slide Shows, Adding notes pages, and Printing

5.0 Basic INTERNET Concepts

Understanding the Internet, How Do I Connect to the INTERNET, Setting up an Account with an ISP, Browsing the WEB, Downloading and Installing Software, Communicating with E-mail

Sending and Receiving Documents with E-mail, Sending and Receiving Documents with E-Mail, Electronic Mailing Lists, Participating in Newsgroup, Telnet, IRC, Moo/Mud and ICQ

6.0 MS Excel

Starting and Editing MS Excel, The Menu Bar and Smarticons, Navigating inside the Worksheet, Working with Workbook and Cells, Creating and Saving Worksheet, Entering Data and Using a Formula Formatting the Workbook, Spreadsheet Application (Using Function Wizard), MACROS Programming

7.0 Business Mathematics (Investment Concepts)

Simple Interest and Simple Discount (Actual and Approximate Time, Ordinary and Exact Interest, Accumulating and Discounting at both Simple Interest Rate and Simple Discount Rate), Compound Interest (Accumulating and Discounting at Compound Interest, Solving for Unknown Rate or Time, Nominal Effective Rate), Amortization with Simple Data (Present Value & Future Value), Amortization

8.0 Information Technology (Presentation Report)