HADM 1740: Business Computing

3.0 credit hours - S/U grade only
Offered Spring, Fall

Instructors

• Andrew Whitmore (ajw36) - Fall 2025
• Kasey Tarantino (kst45) - Fall 2025

Description

This course covers how to use the Microsoft Office productivity suite to analyze and solve business problems, answer business questions and promote effective personal and professional brand management. The overall objective of the course is to illustrate how to use software to promote competitive advantage in three ways: (1) Students will use Word to learn how to efficiently create professional documents that are both appealing and standardized in order to build brand recognition. (2) Students will learn how to use Power Point to visually convey complex information to stakeholders in a manner that promotes shared understanding. (3) Students will use Excel to organize data, transform data into information, and model a complex business problem.