This course covers the broad use of microcomputers in business. Designed to familiarize students with the Microsoft Office Suite, it includes the study of word processing using Word, spreadsheet using Excel, database using Access, and presentation software using PowerPoint as well as Windows, Internet Explorer, and integration concepts. Hands-on experience in a microcomputer lab is included.

This course uses Windows XP, Word 2007, Excel 2007, Access 2007, and PowerPoint 2007.

Transfer: *UC, CSU • Prerequisite: None. Ability to keyboard 25 words per minute is recommended. *No UC credit for CIS 1 or 4 if taken after CS 3.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:

The following textbook is MANDATORY for the course.  It is available at  www.coursedirect.com (enter the ISBN).  It is also available at the SMC bookstore or A&R Bookstore (Pico&17th, phone 310 314 4361).  
BE SURE YOU PURCHASE THE CORRECT ISBN FOR YOUR CIS 4 SECTION with Office 2007. 

Project files: Instructor will provide instructions for obtaining the Project files.

• MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
• The Foundation for California Community Colleges has made it possible for faculty, staff, and students to purchase computer hardware and software at significant discounts. Eligible individuals can choose from products offered by Adobe, Dell, and Microsoft.
  See: www.CollegeSoftware.org
   
• Note: The CSIS department has a special license agreement with Microsoft which allows students taking our courses to install Windows XP Professional and Access 2007 on their personal computers at no cost. If you need either of these software packages please email Craig Hammond at hammond_craig@smc.edu for more information.

[ This is a suggestion subject to Instructor Evaluation ]

In order to take this course you need a computer running the Windows operating system. You also need: A working email address (an Email software that works with your email provider), an Internet Service Provider (ISP) such as a DSL line, LAN connection, Cable Modem connection, or phone line connection (DSL or Cable Modem recommended). A CD ROM drive.

Everyone comes to the class with different expectations.  This online course DOES duplicate the content of the traditional course, but NOT the delivery. An online course relies on a self-directed student completing the assignments, readings, and threaded discussions on their own time schedule while meeting the posted deadlines. Students who perform at their potential, welcome change and are willing to assume responsibility, make decisions, and express opinions, are successful in this online course.

It is very easy to fall behind in an online class. There are no scheduled on-campus or on-line class periods, however, the online Units for each Chapter, Homework, Quizzes, and Exams are scheduled with due dates for the time period designated by the instructor. This is not a work at your own pace type of course which you may wait until the last week of the semester to complete. The entire course is asynchronous and can be accessed at your convenience. Your only requirement is to complete assignments and exams as scheduled on the syllabus. You must be a self-directed student who can plan your schedule to accommodate the deadlines outlined in the syllabus.  Cyber students are often in multiple life roles and time is a valuable commodity.

For the semester you are expected to visit the course Web site at least 6 times a week--ideally, once a day is best.  Once there, you will find announcements, course schedule, lecture material, assignments, and exams.

To enroll in this section, please go to: http://www.smc.edu/admissions/enrollment.htm and follow the instructions for Student Self Service (web) or Telephone enrollment.

• It is your responsibility to meet all Homework, Quiz, and Exam Due Dates as outlined by Instructor schedule.
• Add/Drops are the responsibility of the student.
• Incomplete's will not be issued except for a documented emergency.
• Any cheating on assignments, quizzes, exams or projects will result in an automatic Failure for the course.
• Please turn all electronic devices to silent mode. When an electronic device makes any noise (cell phone, beeper, etc.) the entire class will have a pop quiz, the more your phone rings the more quizzes you get!

STUDENT ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITY:

You are responsible for following the Santa Monica College computer use guidelines (posted in classroom and computer lab). Please remember that when you are using a computer at SMC you are using property of the State of California so do not go to a Web site or type an email that you would not like your teacher or the Sate of California to see!

Santa Monica College defines academic dishonesty as the act of or assistance in deceiving, including fraud or deception in any academic exercise. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, certain actions not authorized by the instructor or testing officer, such as using notes or testing aids, allowing someone else to assume one’s identity, falsifying records, plagiarism, changing answers on a previously scored assignment or exam, copying, inventing information to complete a lab experiment or case analysis, and talking or giving information by any means during an exam.