The State of New Mexico Business Articulation committee provides the following common goals for this course for any university in New Mexico.
A student who completes this course should also be able to:
• Describe basic information technology terminology
• Identify and use hardware components of IT systems
• Describe and apply concepts of file management
• Describe the basic concepts of application and operating systems software
• Describe and use IT systems for communications (e.g., word processing, presentation software, email, etc.
• Describe the concepts of information management, databases, and database management systems
• Describe the social impact of information technology
• Describe the international impact of IT issues
• Identify and explain important ethical, security, and privacy issues in information systems
• Create and use spreadsheets
• Create and use databases
• Use Internet search engines for research