ILRID 2660

Essential Desktop Applications

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Provides skills in the use of personal computers that run the Windows operating system. Covers fundamental technical concepts and time-saving techniques for Windows, and Microsoft Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. Emphasizes hands-on experience and development of PC-based solutions and strategies by using examples that address human resource and other practical real-world issues. Students will take the industry-recognized Microsoft test to gain certification as a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) in Excel. The skills developed in this course are useful prerequisites for several elective courses in human resource management and essential in the 21st-century workplace.

Forbidden Overlaps Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: HADM 1740, HADM 2740.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: ILR students.

Fees Course fee: $35.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2025SU, 2025SP, 2024FA

When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.

Comments Not all lectures cross-listed. Please see class roster each semester for cross-listed offerings.

View Enrollment Information