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NET 110 - Microcomputer Fundamentals


Last Date of Approval: Fall 2022

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 30
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
Students will learn the fundamentals of Command Line, Windows operating systems, and file management and fundamental productivity software. Class is meant for CNT students. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various technology topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the technology and how to apply those concepts in a lab setting, which is a skill that should be beneficial in any/all types of technology careers. This course will also help students gain hands-on technology literacy which will be of vital significance when making important work-related decisions.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: None

Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face, Virtual, Online

Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.

Course Fees: Face-to-Face: None; Online: 8-week online students will have a per credit hour e-book fee automatically charged to their account.

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:

a. Demonstrate the basic DOS commands
b. Copy, move, and delete files & directories
c. Create, change and remove directories
d. Create text files
e. Create batch files for simple and complex tasks
f. Understand directory structures
g. Use basic network trouble shooting commands

Objectives: 

a. Chapter 1
b. Chapter 4
c. Chapter 12
d. Chapter 2



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