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MIS 100B Fundamentals of Information Technology in Organizations - Skills

This two credit course is designed for students who have taken the MIS 100 (formerly MISD 100) waiver exam and who successfully completed only the concepts portion, but not the skills portion. This course focuses on creating computer literate users who can better communicate with the technical people in their organization. It covers computer skills that introduce students to word processing, graphics, database, spread sheet, business presentation and Internet microcomputer applications. An e-mail account is required before registration. This course, taken with MIS 100A, fulfills the MIS 100 requirement.

Special information

Note: This section of MIS 100 covers only the skills portion of the course and is for students who have waived out of the concepts portion of the curriculum. Students who need four credits for MIS 100 can earn those credits by signing up for both MIS 100A and MIS 100B.
2 Undergraduate credits

Effective August 24, 2002 to present

Learning outcomes

General

  • Students will also be able to use conditional formatting, import data from an external site and manipulate the data.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate the use of formulas functions and formatting, and what if analysis to create a mortgage table and use pivot tables to manipulate data.
  • Students will be able to use a Template to Create a Resume and Share a Finished Document.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to apply primary and foreign keys and understand simple relationship between tables.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to create a Document with a Title Page, use Lists, Tables, and a Watermark.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to create reports and forms.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to use Financial Functions, Data Tables, and Amortization Schedules, work with Multiple Worksheets and Workbooks, create Templates, Importing Data.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to use Microsoft Access to create, edit, save, query and format tables.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to use Microsoft Excel to create, edit, save and format spreadsheets and create and embed charts.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to use Microsoft Word to create, edit, save and format documents including documents with graphics.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to use the review functions and properly cite research papers; create a web page and a resume.