OADM 1201: Word 2
Department
Admin Professional 1 & 2
School
Hospitality, Food Studies and Applied Business
Description
This course builds on the Word 1 course and includes intermediate word processing skills. Students produce professional documents that include tables, mail merges, and table of contents. In addition, students generate newsletters and other forms of promotional material through the use of WordArt and SmartArt.
Year of study
1st Year Post-secondary
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Insert, modify, and format Word tables
- Insert a watermark
- Insert WordArt and text boxes
- Insert Word's built-in shapes and SmartArt
- Format a document into multiple columns
- Use mail merge to merge and print form letters, labels, and envelopes
- Review a document and track changes
- Insert a table of contents
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
None
Hours
Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 20
Clinical, Lab, Rehearsal, Shop, Kitchen, Simulation, Studio: 28
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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30%
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Tables (10%), Graphics (5%), Columns (5%), Mail merge (5%), Tables of content (5%)
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Midterm Exam
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30%
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Final Exam
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30%
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Participation
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10%
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Course topics
- Tables
- Mail merge
- Inserting WordArt, SmartArt, shapes and graphics
- Formatting text to columns
- Reviewing documents and tracking changes
- Table of contents
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.