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    Aug 01, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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BTECA 125 Microsoft Excel (4 credits)



Course Description
Students will learn the features of Excel to align with the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) objectives.

Course Content
Preparing, formatting, and enhancing Excel workbooks and worksheets
Creating charts and inserting formulas in a MS Excel worksheet
Maintaining worksheets and workbooks
Managing and integrating data in the Excel environment

Student Outcomes
  1. Apply skills and concepts to create workbooks and worksheets for personal and professional applications.
  2. Manage workbooks by integrating data and formulas in worksheets.
  3. Apply formulas to produce meaningful reports for business use.
  4. Create charts to manipulate and showcase key business data and increase readability for business reports.
  5. Import data and text files from other programs.


Degree Outcomes
  1. Apply technical skills to meet industry standards in the office.
  2. Manage time and multiple tasks appropriate to the office.
  3. Employ software and/or technology to manage information.

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40

Potential Methods
A. Discussion, in class or online
B. Instructor assessment
C. Objective test
D. Peer assessment
E. Production test
F. Computerized test
G. Self-assessment
H. Individual project
I. Completed documents



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