Cheating is sufficient cause for expulsion from class and referral to the Dean of Students for disciplinary action. Students listen to lectures, demonstrations, and student presentations. Students give an oral presentation in conjunction with Presentation Package assignments. Hence the students are also practicing good learning how to learn techniques. 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.