TEACHER: TBA
MODE: 15 one hour lectures, on-site or web demos, assignments, project.
REQUIRED STUDENT RESOURCES:
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Power point, Publisher, Project, and Macromedia Dreamweaver Softwares.
TEACHER REFERENCES:
Stephen Monsma, Editor, Responsible Technology: A Christian Perspective. (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1986).
Charles C. Adams, "Guiding Principles for an Office of Information Technology," Proceedings of the 4th Christian Engineering Education Conference, June 19-21, 2002, The Presbyterian College, Montreal, Canada.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course encourages and challenges the student to use common softwares to increase their business productivity and professionalism. Students first become familiar with each software through self-learning and demonstrations. They are then given an assignment which leads them to use important features. The concept of technicism (worship of technology) is used as a theme to advance discussions about the appropriate and inappropriate use of computers in society and small businesses. The student should come away from the course both comfortable with how to use common softwares and some Biblical perspectives on how technology should be managed in a Christian business and that technology is not neutral.
Quote to ponder : "The drive for human autonomy and mastery apart from God and his will manifests itself in technology in what we can technicism. Technology is a savior, the means to make progress and gain mastery over modern, secularized cultural desires."