A course introducing students to desktop publishing and graphics applications to create graphs, charts, newsletters, reports, promotional materials, and other documents vital for the support of daily business operations. This course introduces the students to the popular Microsoft Office Outlook software. Students will develop the ability to customize Outlook, use e-mail client, manage Outlook's contacts, use Outlook calendar, manage tasks, use Outlook's journal component, and share folders and files with other Outlook users. A course designed to provide students with the skills necessary to install and troubleshoot hardware devices. Topics include system setup, RAM, hard and floppy drives, data buses, power supplies, IO cards, and diagnostic tools.
Students create and maintain database objects and are able to store, retrieve, and manipulate data.
Demonstrations and hands-on practice reinforce the fundamental concepts. Database and UNIX knowledge recommended. Topics include communication channels, modems, communications media, communications software and hardware. Completion of NOVL 1804. A course in which students acquire knowledge of programming techniques in Microsoft Visual Basic, an event-driven programming language.