This course is open to all students and is designed for both personal use as well as the first course for the BOT student. Continued emphasis on keyboarding skills with drills for improvement in technique, speed, and accuracy.
Increased emphasis is given on more difficult letters, reports, and tables.
Unarranged problem applications receive major emphasis. An introductory course in the principles of Speedwriting, includes a mastery of Speedwriting forms and phrases, development of reading and writing Speedwriting material, and simple new matter dictation. An introduction to computer literacy, computer applications, concepts, and operations. An integrated software package provides hands-on experience in word processing, spreadsheets, database management, and graphing. Computer laboratory time is required.