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    Jul 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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BTECA 143 Microsoft Access (3 credits)



Course Description
Students will learn how to navigate MS Access and create customizable database applications.

Course Content
A. Store information: users can create tables to store data about customers, products, orders, and more
B. Manage data: users can create relationships between tables to bring data together in queries, forms, and reports
C. Analyze data: users can use queries to find and retrieve data, and to perform calculations
D. Report data: users can use reports to present data in print or other forms
E. Update data: users can use queries to update or delete multiple records at once

Student Outcomes
 

  1. Apply skills and concepts to manage data input when creating personal, academic, and workplace databases in Microsoft Access.
  2. Identify the use of queries, tables, and forms in Microsoft Access Database.
  3. Design and modify queries, tables, and forms in a Microsoft Access Database.


Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Demonstrate 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 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

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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