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Santa Rosa Junior College 154 CIS 61.13 Using Microsoft Excel (Formerly Computer and Information Science 82.12) 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Recommended: Computer and Information Science 81.5 or equivalent experience with microcomputers A lecture/lab course in the use of Macintosh Excel software. Topics covered range from the fundamentals of Excel's three major uses: spreadsheets , databases and graphics, through the advanced use of functions, data commands, macros and enhanced graphics capabilities. Additionally, data transfer, data linking, and spreadsheet/database integration will be covered. (CSU) CIS 62 Advanced Spreadsheets Design 4 units/3 hours lecture, 5 hours laboratory by arrangement. Prerequisite: Three units of selected topics in spreadsheets (82 series) or equivalent experience and consent of instructor. Recommended: A thorough understanding of the manual operations of spreadsheet products; preferable to know Lotus 1- 2-3; useful to have had at least one computer programming course Introduction to design, implementation and maintenance of multicomponent and multiple file spreadsheets; microcomputer oriented. A review of spreadsheet fundamentals, discussion of various approaches to spreadsheet design, implementation of analytical type spreadsheets, the design and implementation of control programs for manipulating spreadsheet components. Applications are implemented using the Lotus 1-2-3 macro programming language. (CSU) CIS 65.11 Microsoft Word (Formerly Computer and Information Science 83.2) 3 units/ 2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Recommended: Eligibility for English 100A; Computer and Information Science 81.5 or equivalent knowledge of Macintosh A full semester course in Microsoft Word. Topics include creating and editing simple documents, formatting, mail merging, outlining, style sheets and glossaries. Enhancements such as customizing Word, multiple columns, line drawing and graphics will be covered. (CSU) CIS 65.12A Desktop Publishing with Word (Formerly Computer and Information Science 83.2C) 1.5 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Prerequisite: Computer and Information Science 85.11 or equivalent experience with Microsoft Word. Recommended: The student should be able to create and edit simple documents as well as apply elementary characters and paragraph formatting in Microsoft Word Advanced document preparation and desktop publishing techniques in Microsoft Word. Working with multiple page documents, creating an index and table of contents. Working with hyphenation and the thesaurus. Special features of laser printers, including PostScript. Additional topics include the use of style sheets, tables, incorporating external graphics and multiple columns. Elements of design are reviewed. (CSU) CIS 65.31 WordPerfect (Formerly Computer and Information Science 83.5) 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Recommended: Completion of Computer and Information Science 101A or equivalent experience Introduction to the WordPerfect word processing software program. Topics include edit, line format, page format, character format, save, retrieve, spell check, use of thesaurus, printing, index, outline footnotes, line drawing, sort, columns, tables, graphics, search and replace, fonts, macros, mail merge, and other WordPerfect features and products. Typing skills are not required. (CSU) CIS 65.32 Desktop Publishing with WordPerfect (Formerly Computer and Information Science 83.5C) 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Prerequisite: Computer and Information Science 65.31 or equivalent An introduction to desktop publishing techniques and advanced word processing skills in WordPerfect. The student will produce documents such as brochures with graphics, newsletters and forms. Enhancements for lengthy documents such as style sheets, macros, indexes and tables, line drawing, special fonts, and importing and exporting with other computer software will be explored. Scanners and laser printer technologies will be explored. (CSU) CIS 65.51 PageMaker (Formerly Computer and Information Science 83.7) 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Recommended: Eligibility for English 100A or equivalent; Computer and Information Science 81.5A or 101A. Student must be able to create a word processing document in either Word, Works, WordPerfect or any other word processing package A full semester course in PageMaker. Text will be created in PageMaker as well as imported from word processing packages, text will be placed around graphics, and PageMaker's drawing tools will create lines, boxes, and other special design effects. Topics include design techniques, style sheets, master pages, tables, working with scanned images, templates, finetuning text and graphics. (CSU) CIS 66 Management Information Systems 3 units/3 hours lecture, 1 hour by arrangement. Recommended: Eligibility for English 1A or equivalent and CIS 5 An examination of the use of information systems to support the management activities of an organization. Topics include: the fundamentals of hardware, software, database management, data communications, transaction processing information systems, decision support systems, information reporting systems, and systems analysis and design. Case studies and several software packages will be utilized to illustrate the principals covered. Required for the Computer Programmer and the Microcomputer Systems Specialist Certificates. (CSU) CAN BUS 6 CIS 69.11 dBASE (Formerly Computer and Information Science 82.8.) 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Prerequisite: Knowledge of basic operations of an MS-DOS computer. Recommended: Eligibility for English 100A or equivalent An introduction to dBASE program emphasizing its use as a general purpose database management system. Topics include: how to design, create, update, index a simple database and how to manage a multiple file database. Covers features such as calculations, reports, labels, custom data entry forms, file reorganization, a customized work environment, to the exchange of data with other software packages and an introduction to programming. (CSU)

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