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OADM 1104: Word 1 

Effective date

May 2020 

Department

Admin Professional 1 & 2 

School

Hospitality, Food Studies and Applied Business 
 




Description

This course covers basic word processing skills using MS Word. Topics include opening, saving, printing, character formatting, paragraph formatting, and section/page formatting. Further topics include working with bullets and numbers, multi-level lists, creating headers and footers, and page breaks and section breaks. Troubleshooting techniques will also be discussed to enable students to overcome issues encountered when using Word. 

Credits

2.5 

Year of study

1st Year Post-secondary 

Prerequisites

None 

Corequisites

None 

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)

None 

Hours

Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 20.5
Clinical, Lab, Rehearsal, Shop, Kitchen, Simulation, Studio: 27.5
Total Hours: 48
 

Instructional Strategies

This course uses lectures and demonstrations to help students achieve the learning outcomes in an interactive manner. In addition, the instructor will use assignments and exams to help students apply the course material and identify strengths and weaknesses of their knowledge gained in the course. 

Grading System

Letter Grade (A-F) 

Passing grade

 

Evaluation Plan

Type

Percentage

Assessment activity

Assignments 

15% 

Identifying parts of the Word window (5%)
Creating simple documents (5%)


Bullets and numbers (5%) 

Assignments 

30% 

Character formatting (10%)
Paragraph formatting (10%)
Section formatting (10%) 

Midterm Exam 

25% 

 

Final Exam 

20% 

 

Participation 

10% 

 

Course topics

Notes:

  • Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
  • Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
    https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/.
  • To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.
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