The focus for project-oriented assignments combines requirements for relevance, collaboration, problem solving, meeting deadlines, using style and format guides, word processing skills, electronic communication, and visualization. Students utilize Microsoft Office in the production of their work. They prepare business letters, reports, and tables as well as business itineraries and agendas. They learn graphics, fonts, and landscape orientation. Students increase their speed and accuracy through the amount of production work they complete.
Students acquire skills and competencies appropriate for an entry-level office position.
Students who enroll in this course are eligible for articulated credit from the College of DuPage. They learn software included in Microsoft Office. Students prepare business letterheads, brochures, programs, flyers, newsletters, and various other desktop published projects while they incorporate such features as graphics, font sizes and styles, clip art, justification, and columns with standard word processing operations. Concepts of appropriate layout and design are incorporated into the learning process. Students must complete a real-life project at the end of the course in order to experience the standards required by the business world.