Undergraduate Computer Skills Requirements

School of Business

Undergraduate degree programs	Computer skills required of graduates	Where in curriculum students are taught computer skills	Procedures to ensure program graduates possess computer skills required
BA Business Administration	Topic: target level of knowledge and skill, percent of class time to be spent on this topic, appropriate number of contact hours. 1. Spreadsheet software: significant competency, 40%, 16.8 hours. 2. Word processing: significant competency, 15%, 6.3 hours. 3. Internet and WWW: moderate competency, 15%, 6.3 hours. 4. Presentation software: minimal competency, 10%, 4.2 hours. 5. Database software: minimal competency, 10%, 4.2 hours. 6. Computer and MIS concepts: minimal competency, 10%, 4.2 hours.	Initially taught in MGSC 190, Computer Literacy is one of the stated "Recurring Themes" to be included in the following BA Core program courses for BA students. The following courses require word processing, spreadsheet use (including tables, and often graphs and figures), Internet and e-mail. Accounting - ACCT 222 Statistics - MGSC 291 Professional Communication - MGMT 250 (also requiring presentation software) Finance - FINA 363 Marketing - MKTG 350 Operations - MGSC 395 Additionally, Economics - ECON 224 requires word processing and spreadsheet use and Management - MGMT 371 requires Internet use. Computer skills are also required in many major elective courses, but we do not have an inventory of their use at this time.	Repeated reinforcement of the skills initiated in MGSC 190 in the remaining BA courses throughout the College assures computer literacy and competency of our graduating students. Annually, we have a post course assessment of the above mentioned core courses. One objective of the assessment is to determine the computer skills taught and reinforced in later courses.