2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    May 17, 2025  
2025-2026 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
A. Creating and managing Excel workbooks and worksheets
B. Creating Excel cells and ranges
C. Creating Excel tables
D. Applying formulas and functions
E. Creating charts and objects

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
Degree OutcomeDemonstrate proficiency in efficiently performing a variety of administrative tasks. (Including answering phones, managing schedules, handling correspondence using common office software such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and email/calendar management programs.) 

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
1. Discussion, in class or online
2. Instructor assessment
3. Objective test
4. Peer assessment
5. Production test
6. Computerized test
7. Self-assessment
8. Individual project
9. Completed documents



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