CPSC 100 GE  —  Personal Computers and Their Uses home · syllabus · schedule · links

This course is an introduction to personal computers (PCs) for non-science majors. The course teaches the use of standard PC software, including an operating system, a word processing program, a spreadsheet, a presentation package, and a database package. The course also provides a non-technical understanding of how computers function, and how society uses computers to obtain and manage information. Students may receive credit for either CPSC 100 or CPSC 101, but not both.

The Lecture Topics of CPSC 100

This course assumes no background in computers at all. The desired course outcomes for this class are that students will be able to use applications software competently to solve problems:

• Windows
• File manipulations (creation, deletion, folders, zipping, etc.)
• MS Excel
• MS Word
• MS Access
• MS PowerPoint
• Sending email with the University Exchange System