HST 1010 - Technology Foundations

Clock Hours: 24

Delivery Mode
on-ground

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:
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

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

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

4.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