Business Computer Applications

CTIS 186 builds the baseline office-software fluency that the rest of the CTIS program quietly assumes you already have: structuring slides that actually communicate, producing a clean Word document with proper styles instead of manual formatting, and getting useful answers out of a spreadsheet through formulas, lookups, and conditional rules. The work is almost entirely hands-on — weekly assignments in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, a lab exam, and a practical final where you're judged on whether you can do the task, not describe it. It's a freshman-semester requirement with no prerequisite, and the payoff shows up later when reports, presentations, and data tables stop being the bottleneck in your other courses.