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Santa Rosa Junior College CIS 51.12A DOS Utilities 2.5 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement for 8 weeks. CR/NC option. Prerequisite: Completion of CIS 84.1 with grade of C or better; OR prior qualification for CIS 51.12A; OR completion of CIS 51.11 with grade of C or better. Recommended: CIS 52.11 or equivalent experience. An introduction to the use of utility software products utilized in a DOS operating system environment. Utilities include system maintenance and debugging programs, system security software, software emulators, memory resident systems, and DOS shells. Required for the Microcomputer Systems Specialist Certificate. (CSU) May be repeated with different topics. CIS 52.11.A Macintosh System Management 1.5 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement for 8 weeks. CR/NC option. Prerequisite: Completion of BDP 81.5A with grade of C or better; OR prior qualification for CIS 52.11A. This course covers essential information for those using or owning a Macintosh. Students will master essential da -today operational skills such as making hard disk backups and using virus software and screen savers. Topics include organizing folders, understanding and installing fonts, adding memory and using popular utility packages. (CSU) May be repeated with different topics. CIS 61.11 Lotus 1-2-3 (Formerly Computer and Information Sciences 82.5) 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. A semester length course in the use of the integrated software package Lotus l- 2-3. Includes a thorough investigation of the use of Lotus l-2-3 to solve analytical problems. Topics include spreadsheet design and implementation, database systems, graphing and printing. (CSU) CIS 61.31 Using Microsoft Excel 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Recommended: 81.5 or equivalent experience with microcomputers. A lecture/lab course in the use of Microsoft Excel software. Topics covered range from the fundamentals of Excels three major uses: spreadsheets, database and graphics, through the advanced use of unctions, data commands macros and enhanced graphics capabilities. Additionally, data transfer, data linking and spreadsheet/ database integration will be covered. (CSU) May be repeated with different topics. CIS 62 Advanced Spreadsheets Design 4 units/3 hours lecture, 5 hours by arrangement. Grade only. Recommended: English 1A or equivalent. Also students should have a thorough understanding of the manual operations of an of the common macro- computer oriented, spreadsheet products. Currently it is preferable that they know Lotus 1-2-3. It would also be useful for the student to have had at least one computer programming course. Introduction to design, implementation and maintenance of multi-component 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 l-2-3 macro programming language. (CSU) CIS 65.11 Microsoft Word 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Recommended: Eligibility for Engl 100A and completion of CIS 101A or CIS 5 or CIS 81.5 with a grade of C or better. A full semester course introducing Microsoft Word on both the Macintosh and Windows platform. Beginning skills include creating, editing and formatting a simple document. Intermediate formatting includes tabs and indents, style sheets, line drawing, and multiple columns. Other topics include mail merging, tables, templates and graphics. (CSU) CIS 65.12A Desktop Publishing with Word 1.5 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement for 8 weeks. CR/NC option. Prerequisite: CIS 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 character 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) May be repeated with different topics. CIS 65.31 WordPerfect 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Recommended: Completion of 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 products. Typing skills are not required. (CSU) CIS 65.32 Desktop Publishing with WordPerfect (Formerly CIS 83.5C) 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Prerequisite: CIS 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. CIS 65.51 PageMaker 3 units/2 hours lecture, 3.5 hours by arrangement. CR/NC option. Recommended: Eligibility or English 100A or equivalent; CIS 81.5A or CIS 101A. Student must be able to create a word processing document in either Word. Works. WordPerfect or any 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 CIS 66 Management Information Systems 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, office automation, networks, expert systems, and systems analysis and design. 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