Mar 28, 2024  
Course/Program Inventory 
    
Course/Program Inventory

AOT 1021 - Technology Foundations



Clock Hours: 30

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Prerequisites: None

Course Description:
To ensure the student has foundational skills in: reading for information, applied mathematics, locating information and business writing.To ensure the student has foundational skills in: reading for information, applied mathematics, locating information and business writing.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Course Competencies:

Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

1. Reading for information:

  • Strengthen skills in vocabulary, spelling and visual comprehension.
  • Identify sentence parts; such as: nouns and verbs
  • Follow directions
  • Strengthen skills in finding information/details
  • Develop skills with information in paragraphs
  • Develop skills in reading for information, interpreting information, gaining meaning from context and complex information

2. Applied Mathematics:

  • Strengthen skills in basic math
  • Strengthen skills in word problems and problem solving
  • Working with money, time and quantity
  • Measurements
  • Rounding/ estimating/ averaging
  • Positive and negative numbers
  • Percentages, proportions and ratios
  • Perimeter/area

 

3. Reading Graphics

  • Introduction to graphs
  • Pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs, tables and forms, maps and plans, diagrams and gauges
  • Interpreting complex graphics
  • Finding details and extracting data

 

4. Business Writing

  • Developing skills in sentence parts/parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, developing ideas and organizing ideas.
  • Vocabulary, writing style
  • Describing words
  • Proofreading
  • Persuasive writing

 

5. Writing

  • Punctuation and capitalization
  • Developing skills in sentence parts/parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, developing ideas and organizing ideas.
  • Vocabulary, writing style
  • Describing words
  • Proofreading