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Date Scanned:
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Date Inactivated
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College of the Redwoods
COURSE OUTLINE
PROGRAM AND COURSE NUMBER:
BUS 27
FORMER NUMBER (If previously offered):
COURSE TITLE:
DEGREE APPLICABLE
NON-DEGREE APPLICABLE
BUS 177
BEYOND BASIC WORD PROCESSING
I. CATALOG AND OUTLINE
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
A short-term intermediate course in Word Processing using the most current software. Students create
headers, footers, alternating page numberings, superscripts, subscripts, line drawing organizational
charts, and tables with various row and cell combinations. They also perform global search and
replace.
NOTE:
COURSE OUTLINE:
% of Classroom Hours Spent on Each Topic
Printing reports with headers, footers, pagination, conditional
end of line adjustments after global search and replace.
45%
Widening column, adding rows, editing tables, mathematical
formulae for totals in tables.
35%
Drawing lines for organizational charts, centering inside the line drawn boxes,
and changing to other character choices to create original line drawn graphics.
20%
II. PREREQUISITES
Prerequisite?
No
Corequisite?
No
Recommended Preparation?
No
Eligibility for:
Engl 150
Yes _________________
Yes ___________________
(course)
Yes Touch Keyboardking/25 wpm
(course)
Math 105/106
Rationale for Prerequisite, Corequisite, Recommended Preparation: “Beyond Basic” requires students to
input lengthy documents. Without keyboarding skills to input original reports and complicated tables,
students cannot apply new features to these documents. If they fall behind in a 5.5 week course, usually
they are unable to complete the course successfully.
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Date Approved:
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Date Scanned:
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Date Inactivated
10/12/07
III. OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENTS
1. COURSE OUTCOMES/QBJECTJ YES
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:
I.
2.
3.
create reports with appropriate headers, footers, and pagination;
create complicated tables with mathematical formulae applied;
create various graphics from their individualized line drawing assignments.
2. COLLEGE LEVEL CRITICAL THINKING TASKS/ASSIGNMENTS:
Degree applicable courses must include critical thinking tasks/assignments. This section need not be
completed for non-credit 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.
Students are required to analyze word processing problems, plan their solution, and produce final
documents.
3. ASSESSMENT
Degree applicable courses 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)
laboratory report(s)
written homework
reading report(s)
other (specify) _Students will compose class lecture notes in sentence and paragraph form
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)_*Numerous lab assignments are required—see the textbook exercises and
performance exercises for detail
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
5. Other (specify) ____________________________________
NOTE: A course grade may not be based solely on attendance.
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Date Scanned:
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Date Inactivated
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IV. TEXTS AND MATERIALS
APPROPRIATE TEXTS AND MATERIALS:
(Indicate textbooks that may be required or recommended, including alternate texts that may be used.)
Text(s)
Title: Desktop Basics With WordPerfect 5.1
Required
Edition:______
Altemate
Author: Margaret Brown
Recommended
Publisher: Dictation Disc Co.
Date Published: 1991
(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
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) ____________________________
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Date Approved:
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Date Scanned:
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Date Inactivated
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V. TECHNICAL INFORMATION
1. Contact Hours Per Week: (Indicate
5. Recommended Maximum Class Size 30
"TOTAL" hours if less than semester length)
Lecture:
Weekly
Lab:
5
TOTAL
Weekly 27
No. of Weeks 5.5
TOTAL
(S = semester length)
(Use Request for Exception sheet to justify
6. Transferability
CSU
UC
List two UC/CSU campuses with similar courses
(include course #s)
HSU, CIS 27-I CSU SAC, 6B
more-than-minimum required hours.)
Articulation with UC requested
Units 0.5 or
Variable Unit Range
7. Grading Standard
Letter Grade Only
2. TLUs 1.5
CR/NC Only
Grade-CR/NC Option
3. Does course fulfill a General Education
Grade-CR/NC Option Criteria:
requirement? (For existing courses only;
Introductory
for new courses, use GE Application Form)
1st course in sequence
Exploratory
Yes
No
8. Is course repeatable
Yes
If yes, in what G.E. area?
If so, repeatable to a maximum of:
AA/AS Area
4
CSU/GE Area
2.0
No
Total Enrollments
Total Units
IGETC Area
(Use Request for Exception sheet to justify repeatability.)
4. Method of Instruction:
9. SAM Classification D
Lecture
Lab
Lecture/Lab
Independent Study
Course Classification I