Computer Skills

This course is aimed at equipping you with essential skills for your day-to-day computer use, both during your education at Rhodes, and in the professional world.  You will learn how to use the internet effectively and how to make websites, how to put together a professional document and how to work with, and manage data using both spreadsheets and databases.

By the end of the CSC 1S course, if you have applied yourself, you should be able to:

1. Search for, and use information from the internet.
2. Communicate electronically using e-mail.
3. Create, format and manipulate MS-Word documents.
4. Create, format, manipulate and interpret MS-Excel worksheets.
5. Use PowerPoint for designing and handling presentations.
6. Define and manipulate database systems including, tables, queries, forms and reports.
7. Identify and design basic websites using HTML tags and codes.