COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College
COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College
COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College
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Communication Skills Department<br />
BTC171 Database Applications<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course introduces database application software. Students<br />
will learn the use of a database through extensive hands-on experience.<br />
The course will emphasize the use of alternative methods of<br />
searching the database, selective retrieval of information and<br />
report/label preparation. Students will explore the use of advanced<br />
functions in order to combine files, modify original design, update<br />
records and become familiar with command-driven and menu<br />
prompts in a Windows environment.<br />
Prerequisite: BTC100<br />
BTC172 Presentation Graphics<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course introduces students to presentation graphics software.<br />
Students will receive hands-on training relating to designing slides,<br />
speaker’s notes and handouts to produce professionally prepared<br />
electronic slide shows. The use of background and foreground<br />
colors, graphics, whitespace, and text material will be stressed in<br />
the development of electronic slide shows. Sound (music, recorded<br />
voice, etc.), video clips and animation are also covered.<br />
Prerequisite: BTO116, BTC100 or MAC101<br />
BTC173 Integrated Software Systems<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course is the capstone to the Microcomputer Systems and<br />
Applications curriculum. Instruction will emphasize the systems<br />
and procedures used to process information in an integrated<br />
software environment. Students will be required to do projects utilizing<br />
advanced database and spreadsheet concepts and graphics<br />
software. Integrated software applications will be completed in a<br />
simulated office environment.<br />
Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101, BTC170, BTC171, BTC172<br />
BTC175 Introduction to Desktop Publishing<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course introduces students to the basics of desktop publishing<br />
— the art of producing typeset documents. Familiarization<br />
with equipment, desktop publishing software and electronic printing<br />
will be emphasized. Students will receive hands-on training<br />
relating to the art of typesetting on the microcomputer. Topics<br />
include input, composition and output in electronic publishing.<br />
Prerequisite: BTC100 or MAC101<br />
BTC200 Introduction to Information Systems<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course introduces students to the use of computers and other<br />
information systems and technologies to solve problems in organizations.<br />
Topics include management information systems (MIS),<br />
hardware and software concepts, the organization of information<br />
using systems analysis and design, electronic commerce and<br />
contemporary applications of technology in organizational environments.<br />
Students will explore ethical perspectives and globalization<br />
issues and will cultivate an awareness of emerging processes.<br />
Prerequisite: BTM101<br />
BTC270 Data Center Operations: The Basics<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course introduces students to the field of computer operations<br />
and the duties associated with the job of computer operator.<br />
Students will be introduced to the operation and maintenance of<br />
computer hardware and peripherals on the mainframe, and to the<br />
keeping of vital logs associated with job scheduling, shift work,<br />
hardware repair and facility scheduling. Students will also gain a<br />
working knowledge of the VM/SP operating system utilizing CMS<br />
and CP commands.<br />
Prerequisite: BTC100 or BTC101 or MAC101<br />
Pre- or Corequisite: ENC/ENG101<br />
BTC275 Data Center Operations: Advanced Topics<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course is a continuation of Data Center Operations: The<br />
Basics, and will emphasize advanced computer system operations<br />
including such topics as command languages, console commands,<br />
analysis of various microcomputer and mainframe operating systems<br />
and computer resource management. This course will cover<br />
such operating systems as MS-DOS, UNIX, MVS, and VM.<br />
Prerequisite: BTC270<br />
Communication Skills Department<br />
Room E-115 (718) 482-5625<br />
Department Faculty<br />
Arthur Lau, Chairperson; Evelyn Burg, Jose Fabara, Xiwu Feng,<br />
Marcia Glick, Karen Kearns, William Kurzyna, Ernest B. Nieratka,<br />
Adhiambo Okomba, Joyce Zaritsky<br />
CSE095 Essentials of Reading I<br />
0 credit; 5 hours (4 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
(Equivalent to First Year Institute USR095)<br />
This course develops students’ critical reading and studying skills.<br />
Literal and inferential levels of comprehension of college-level<br />
reading materials will be developed through the use of reading<br />
strategies, vocabulary exercises and class discussions. Students will<br />
be exposed to a wide variety of readings from the academic disciplines,<br />
thereby acquiring fundamental background knowledge<br />
needed to read proficiently at the <strong>College</strong> level. Students will read<br />
both exposition and a full-length narrative.<br />
Admission to this course is based on placement test scores.<br />
CSE099 Essentials of Reading II<br />
0 credit; 5 hours (4 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
(Equivalent to First Year Institute USR099)<br />
This course reinforces reading and study strategies applied to<br />
advanced college-level texts. Emphasis is on exposition and<br />
argument as well as narrative. Elements of critical reading are<br />
introduced. Standardized reading test strategies are focal points in<br />
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