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BENEFIT OBJECTIVES

FITness involves three types of knowledge, each equally important for reinforcing a deeper understanding of IT and its uses. Upon completion of this course, you will have acquired and honed these three types of knowledge—skills, concepts, and capabilities.

SKILLS

Gain contemporary and immediately applicable skills. Become technically literate. Learn how to:

  • Browse the Web with Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox
  • Create and publish Web pages
  • Transfer files with FTP
  • Effectively use search engines
  • Determine authenticity of Web sites
  • Program with JavaScript
  • Build a spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheets
  • Design a database with Microsoft Access
  • Understand database and online privacy issues
  • Protect your computer from security threats

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CONCEPTS

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"Perspectives on Fitness: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities"

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Reach an essential understanding of the foundations on which IT is built—surpassing technical literacy. Learn about critical areas of IT, such as:

  • Computers
  • Information systems
  • Networks
  • Modeling and abstraction
  • Algorithmic thinking
  • Digital representations, such as MP3, ASCII, and JPG
  • Limitations and societal impacts of IT

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CAPABILITIES

Learn to apply IT in complex situations and understand the consequences. Surpass the conceptual level of IT understanding—achieving fluency. Develop the capabilities to:

  • Manage complexity
  • Test solutions
  • Anticipate changes in technology
  • Think about IT abstractly

IT evolves so rapidly that current skills become obsolete over shorter and shorter time spans. Successful completion of this course will give you an understanding of IT capabilities and concepts that will allow you to keep pace with inevitable advances in IT.

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