OADM 1104: Word 1
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.
Year of study
1st Year Post-secondary
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create, open, save and print Word documents
- Cut, copy, and move text
- Identify and apply appropriate character, paragraph, and section/page formatting in a Word document
- Find and replace text
- Use spellcheck, grammar check, and thesaurus
- Create headers and footers
- Set and modify tab settings
- Apply bullets and numbering to lists, and work with multi-level lists
- Work with page breaks and section breaks
- Troubleshoot problems associated with using MS Word
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)
Evaluation Plan
Type
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Percentage
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Assessment activity
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Assignments
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15%
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Identifying parts of the Word window (5%)
Creating simple documents (5%)
Bullets and numbers (5%)
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Assignments
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30%
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Character formatting (10%)
Paragraph formatting (10%)
Section formatting (10%)
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Midterm Exam
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25%
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|
Final Exam
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20%
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Participation
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10%
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Course topics
- Navigating MS Word
- Creating and saving Word documents
- Formatting Text and Paragraphs
- Printing
- Using Spellcheck and Thesaurus
- Working with bullets and numbers
- Inserting page breaks and section breaks
- Setting tabs
- Troubleshooting
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.