Self-esteem is enhanced as students use and master software packages. Students often work together on class and lab assignments. Students are required to master financial functions in spreadsheets, including computing monthly payments and interest amounts. Students use spreadsheets and data bases to compute commissions, gross pay, and net pay. Students teach each other skills when working on labs and projects.
Students organize and maintain their class, lab, and project assignments.
Students organize and maintain their own data files for all four software packages. Students use computer software to interpret data and communicate the results to others. Students observe appropriate uses of different software applications packages as applied to various business and personal tasks. It will be largely a hands-on experience in that you will be involved in doing some activity each class session on the computer. Attendance is required.