AGRI 85 Objectives

GENERAL COURSE GOAL:

To prepare students with a solid foundation of information technology skills and knowledge to enable them to use current and future software and hardware.

SPECIFIC COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon satisfactory completion of AGRI 85, students will:
1. Become familiar with information technology hardware including types of computers and telecommunication hardware.
2. Understand the role of Operating Systems and demonstrate knowledge of UNIX, and Windows XP.
3. Demonstrate file and folder management on PC, disk, memory stick, and zoo home server directory and backup server directory.
4. Understand basic PC Maintenance, and detection and elimination of Computer Viruses & Spyware.
5. Demonstrate proficiency with electronic communication: e-mail, etiquette, emoticons, attachments, and signature files.
6. Be familiar with the WebCT environment.
7. Demonstrate proficiency in presentation graphics applications by giving a presentation in front of a class.
8. Demonstrate proficiency in word processing applications including tab formatting, inserting symbols, hanging indents, citing references for images and ideas, using Endnotes, and tracking changes.
9. Demonstrate proficiency in spreadsheet and graphics applications.
10. Understand and demonstrate how to present and interpret data in graphic form including basic descriptive statistics.
11. Understand what a peer-reviewed publication is, and the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary data.
12. Demonstrate finding reliable, credible sources of information on the web, and printed paper sources in the University library stacks.
13. Find useful data on the Internet, be critical of those data, and interpret those data.
14. Demonstrate knowledge of data classification (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, etc.).
15. Understand and interpret XY scatterplots, box plots, histograms, population pyramids, and choropleth maps.
16. Create World Wide Web Pages using HTML code and publish on the web using the zoo webserver.
17. Understand the history and legacy of computing.
18. Appreciate the utility, benefit and limitations of computers and information technology.
19. Improve writing skills.