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- This course introduces terminology and gives an overview of the computer and information science. It focuses on the basic concepts of computer hardware and software systems, software applications, online inquiry, and evaluation of materials including ethical decisions. It also includes concepts reinforced in a laboratory environment. Through specific hands-on experience you will gather, evaluate, and solve real-world problems and form decisions based upon critical examination of today's technology. This class is designed to teach you how to use a computer running a Windows Operating System. If you do not have access to a Windows computer or have problems doing assessments, please contact your Navigator to discuss your options. Course Outcomes: 1. Identify current and future trends in computing and recognize various computing devices and their uses. 2. Identify the parts of a computer and their features and functions and recognize the advantages and limitations of important peripheral devices. 3. Identify and describe the features of desktop and specialized computer operating systems and understand the importance of system utilities, backups, and file management. 4. Explain why the web is important in today's society and why fluency in the tools and language of the Internet is necessary to be an educated consumer, a better student, an informed citizen, and a valuable employee. 5. Understand what a computer network is, identify different types of networks, and recognize threats to security and privacy. 6. Demonstrate the proper use of basic word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software features.
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course introduces students to the types of writing they will encounter in business, industry, the academic world and government. It examines the rhetorical nature of writing and asks students to think critically about content, audience, argument and structure. Students will learn how to effectively design documents, present instructions, create proposals and produce technical reports. Course Outcomes: 1. Analyze the rhetorical needs (the needs of the audience in relationship to the assignment) for college-level evidence-based technical writing assignments. 2. Apply appropriate levels of critical thinking strategies (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation) in their written assignments, with an emphasis on technical, evidence-based analysis, reporting, application, and evaluation. 3. Implement appropriate rhetorical elements and organization (executive summary, introduction, thesis, development and research-based support, visual evidence, conclusion, etc.) in their written assignments, with an emphasis on technical evidence-based analysis, reporting, and evaluation assignments. 4. Locate, evaluate, and integrate high-quality information and opinion appropriate for technical evidence-based assignments. 5. Craft sentences and paragraphs that communicate their ideas clearly and effectively using words, sentence patterns, and writing conventions at a high college level to make their writing clear, credible, and precise.
- Subject:
- Ratios and Proportions
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- Math of Biological/Management/Social Sciences presents intuitive development of the calculus of polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions, and extrema theory and applications. Course Outcomes: 1. Apply calculus to solve problems with confidence, persistence, and openness to alternate approaches. 2. Interpret and communicate the concepts of rates of change and derivatives. 3. Connect the graphical behavior, numerical patterns and symbolic representations of function and derivatives. 4. Collaborate to solve calculus problems related to their field of study. 5. Recognize when and how to proficiently apply calculus tools to solve problems in business management, social sciences and and biological sciences. 6. Use a graphing calculator and/or other technology to solve applied problems.
- Subject:
- Calculus
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course introduces the theory of relative prices in a market system, consumer choice, marginal analysis, and the allocation of productive resources among alternative uses in a market economy. Other topics may include market power and price discrimination, public finance, the labor market and environmental policy. Course Outcomes: 1. Discuss the role scarcity plays in defining economic choices and how individuals, companies and nations resolve these issues. 2. Describe and apply marginal principle, principle of opportunity cost, principle of diminishing returns, comparative advantage, and elasticity. 3. Analyze the relationships between production costs and cost curves. 4. Explain the mechanics of supply and demand and apply the supply and demand model to evaluate markets. 5. Discuss the efficiency and equity of both competitive and noncompetitive markets and how both are impacted by government intervention. 6. Explain, compare and contrast, and apply in context each of the basic market structures - i.e. perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition.
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course is an introduction to families with application to personal life. It focuses on diversity in family structure, social class, race, gender, work, and its interaction with other social institutions. Course Outcomes: 1. Use theoretical frameworks to interpret the role of the family within social process and institutions. 2. Describe the nature, value, and limitations of the basic methods of studying individuals and families. 3. Using historical and contemporary examples, describe how perceived differences, combined with unequal distribution of power across economic, social, and political institutions, result in inequity. 4. Explain how difference is socially constructed. 5. Analyze current social issues, including the impact of historical and environmental influences, on family development. 6. Analyze ways in which the intersections of social categories such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and age, interact with the country’s institutions to contribute to difference, power, and discrimination amongst families. 7. Synthesize multiple viewpoints and sources of evidence to generate reasonable conclusions.
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This is a survey course of discrete mathematics for non-physical science majors. Topics include systems of inequalities, linear programming, probability and probability distributions, and an introduction to descriptive statistics. The course emphasizes problem solving through the use of computer spreadsheets. Course Outcomes: 1. Identify and solve linear programming problems. 2. Write and analyze algebraic models for business and other applications. 3. Solve business and biological applications using probability distributions.
- Subject:
- Calculus
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- Address on the Life and Services of Gen. Lewis A. Armistead, delivered by Rev. James E. Poindexter, Late Captain in Thirty-Eighth Virginia Regiment, Armistead's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Before R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, Richmond, VA., January 29, 1909.
- Keyword:
- Civil War, Primary Source, United States History, Confederacy, and Meeting of the Minds
- Subject:
- U.S. History
- Creator:
- James E. Poindexter
- Year Created:
- 1909
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- Description:
- This course is a survey of the world's music with attention to musical styles and cultural contexts. Included are the musical and cultural histories of Ociania, Indonesia, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Course Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of diverse peoples, cultural communities, and traditions while reflecting upon and challenging individual and societal ethnocentrism. 2. Describe and discuss music using appropriate terminology relevant for the field of ethnomusicology. 3. Analyze and identify music from a global intercultural perspective using analytical and critical listening skills. 4. Explain artistic, social, historical, and cultural contexts of world music.
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course