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College of the Redwoods
CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE
DEPARTMENT AND COURSE NUMBER: BUS 12
DEGREE APPLICABLE
NON-DEGREE APPLICABLE
FORMER NUMBER (If previously offered)
COURSE TITLE
KEYBOARDING/TYPEWRITING SKILL DEVELOPMENT
LECTURE HOURS: 0
LAB HOURS: 3.0
UNITS: 1.0
PREREQUISITE: BUS-11 or equivalent
Eligibility for: Engl 150
Math 105
Request for Exception Attached
CO-REQUISITE: NONE
GRADING STANDARD:
Letter Grade Only
TRANSFERABILITY:
CSUS
UC
Articulation with UC requested
Repeatable
yes
no
CR/NC Only
NONE
Max No. Units 4.0
Grade/CR/NC Option
Maximum Class Size 50
Max No. Enrollments 4
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
This course is a self-paced keyboarding/typewriting course for building speed and/or accuracy through
specialized drills on micro computers and electronic typewriters.
NOTE: Repeatable to a maximum of 4 units. Can be taken concurrently with other keyboarding classes.
COURSE OUTCOMES/OBJECTIVES: List the primary instructional objectives of the class. Formulate
some of them in terms of specific measurable student accomplishments, e.g., specific knowledge and/or
skills to be attained as a result of completing this course. For degree-applicable courses, include
objectives in the area of ‘critical thinking.” Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be
able to:
Depending upon students’ pre-test evaluation of their beginning base rates and mid-term base rates,
students will improve their net words a minute on 5-minute time writes according to the following scale:
BEGINNING BASE RATE
NET WORDS A MINUTES IMPROVEMENT
20-29
12
30-39
10
40-49
8
50-59
6
60-69
4
70-UP
4
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COURSE OUTLINE:
% of Classroom Hours Spent on Each Topic
Technique
10%
Location Security
11%
Numeric
17%
Speed Stress
17%
Miscellaneous
17%
(accuracy, word response, adjacent errors, transposing
errors, opposite hand errors, and omitted letter errors)
One-hand stress
11%
5-minute skill building
17%
APPROPRIATE TEXTS AND MATERIALS: (Indicate textbooks that may be required or recommended
including alternate texts that may be used.)
Text(s)
Title: Typing Power
Basic Keyboarding/Typewriting Drills (MC/DN)
Required
Edition: 3rd
Current
Alternate
Author: Lloyd, Rowe & Winger
Lang ford
Recommended
Publisher; McGraw-Hill Date Published: 1984 South-Western Date: 1978
(Additional required, alternate, or recommended texts should be listed on a separate sheet and attached.)
For degree applicable courses the adopted texts have been certified to be college-level:
Yes. Basis for determination:
is used by two or more four-year colleges or universities (certified by the Division Chair or
Branch Coordinator, or Center Dean)
OR
has been certified by the LAC as being of college level using the Coleman and Dale-Chall
Readability Index Scale.
No. Request for Exception Attached
If no text or a below college level text is used in a degree applicable course must have a minimum of one
response in category 1, 2, or 3. If category 1 is not checked, the department must explain why substantial
writing assignments are an inappropriate basis for at least part of the grade.
1. Substantial writing assignments, including:
essay exam(s)
term or other paper(s)
written homework
reading report(s)
laboratory report(s)
other (specify) _____
If the course is degree applicable, substantial writing assignments in this course are inappropriate
because:
The course is primarily computational in nature.
The course primarily involves skill demonstrations or problem solving.
Other rationale (explain) __________________________________________
2. Computational or Non-computational problem-solving demonstrations, including:
exam(s)
quizzes
homework problems
laboratory report(s)
field work
other (specify)_______
3. Skill demonstrations, including:
class performance(s)
other (specify)____
4. Objective examinations, including:
multiple choice
completion
field work
performance exam(s)
true/false
other (specify)
matching items
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5. Other (specify) ____________________________________
NOTE: A course grade may not be based solely on attendance.
REQUIRED READING, WRITING, AND OTHER OUTSIDE OF CLASS ASSIGNMENTS:
Over an 18-week presentation of the course, 3 hours per week are required for each unit of credit. ALL
Degree Applicable Credit classes must treat subject matter with a scope and intensity which require the
student to study outside of class. Two hours of independent work done out of class are required for each
hour of lecture. Lab and activity classes must also require some outside of class work. Outside of the
regular class time the students in this class will be doing the following:
Study
Answer questions
Skill practice
Required reading
Problem solving activity or exercise
Written work (essays/compositions/report/analysis/research)
Journal (reaction and evaluation of class, done on a continuing basis throughout the
semester)
Observation of or participation in an activity related to course content (e.g., play, museum,
concert, debate, meeting, etc.)
Field trips
Other (specify) ____________________________
COLLEGE LEVEL CRITICAL THINKING TASKS/ASSIGNMENTS:
Degree applicable courses must include critical thinking tasks/assignments. This section need not be
completed for non-degree applicable courses. Describe how the course requires students to
independently analyze, synthesize, explain, assess, anticipate and/or define problems, formulate and
assess solutions, apply principles to new situations, etc.
Keyboarding requires mental processes other than critical thinking. It is a complex skill made up of
finely discriminated movement patterns that depend on interrelated sensory, perceptual, mental, and
motor input and output. These patterns must all occur close together in time.
However for students to improve their keyboarding skills, they must apply the following critical thinking
processes:
1. Analyze their errors according to response patterns: random by chance that will disappear or
adjacent, transposing, rock sequences that need particular attention.
2. Assess their technique patterns in order to substitute individual drills for correcting these
weaknesses. Thus students formulate solutions to their own weakness.
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REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION
The Curriculum Committee is authorized to determine the appropriateness of entrance skills and
requisites for any given course; to determine whether or not language and/or computational skills at the
associate degree level are essential to success in a given course; to determine what is college level in
learning skills, vocabulary, and in the ability to think critically and apply concepts; and to determine on a
case-by-case basis when any departure from the attached guidelines may be justified.
This form may also be used to provide justification for making a course repeatable.
To request an exception, provide the following information:
BUS 12
Department and Course No.
Keyboarding (Typing) Skill Development
Course Title
NATURE OF THE EXCEPTION REQUESTED AND RATIONALE:
REPEATABILITY
Some students have taken the class their first semester and have not been keyboarding with any degree
of consistency since. Then their final semester at College of the Redwoods, they wish to repeat the
course to bring their keyboarding skill to employment standards. Or they may be students who need four
semesters of skill building in order to bring their skill up to par.
When students repeat the class, they are not completing the exact same set of drills to reach their speed
goals. Each semester, they need to re-evaluate and re-assess their initial technique and error patterning.