18067 - Data processing

Course contents

Requirement

The course, at University level, presupposesnotions and knowledge at foundation level ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence). An appropriate remedial pre-course in order to achieve the required foundation qualification will take place in the 1stpart of the first term. The course will follow in the 2ndperiod of the 2ndterm, depending on the Faculty's timetable, after it's been published.

Thepre-course will consist of the following modules which are indicated in the Syllabus, 4thedition, published by the AICA, specifying the presupposed notions & required knowledge:

• Concetti teorici di base (Basic concepts),

• Uso del computer e gestione dei file(Files management)

• Reti informatiche(Information Networks)

• Elaborazione testi(Word processing)

• Foglio elettronico(Spreadsheet)

The students that do not have a sufficient knowledge of the above areas are able to acquire them by consulting thenumerous texts and material for the ECDL, optional E-learning tools available, and using I.T laboratory facilities that are at their disposal for their own personal practice and exercise.

Course Content

The objective of the course is to enable students to acquire knowledge and know-how of the main I.T applications, especially designed for the professional preparation of Faculty graduates and, in particular, the specific ones for each of the student's own degree course:

• Inventory, selection, acquisition and utilizing functional I.T tools for optimal organization of information and informative systems of their own work environment.

• Definition, research and acquiring of documentation, particularly bibliography, regulations, administration, and statistics, useful in updating their knowledge and in their own professional activity.

• Exchanging information between various applications of office automation and their use for group and professional activity.

• Utilizing of typical applications of economic professions: to calculate macro and microeconomic indexes, simulations and control, editing reports and project presentations.

  
  

At the end of the course the student, also in reference to the specific degree course, should be able to demonstrate:

1. Being able to recognize the supply and organization of informationand informative systems of typical productive units: public administration, companies, professional studies;

2. Having gained confidence with functions such as office automation useful for work group in a company, or public offices or professional studies;

3. Being able to execute a bibliographical, documental, normative, and from data banks, research using available tools from the university (consult CIB website: www.cib.unibo.it)

4. Being able to use spreadsheets and data base to solve problems that most frequently occur in the productive units and in the utility of statistic data as suggested by CRUI (conference of the rectors of Italian universities) in collaboration with the AICA

5. Being able to know which are the main tools and functions of the informative systems of research, editorials, public data banks, of markets, statistics and of communication of the users and verification of the results.

Knowledgethat will allow to access & manage useful information to perform their own studies, and being updated in professional activities and to access more easily into work environments typical for Economy graduates.

Given the instrumental nature of the notions given by the faculty courses, it is strongly advisable to follow the course& sustain the exam by the end of the 1styear and before the subjects that use these tools to access the information and data elaboration or work documents.

Integrated programme for CLAM, CLEA and the CLABE

1. Information and informative systems

2. Communication systems (in particular emails) and web browsers

3. Bibliographical and network research

4. Data extraction from companies' statistic data banks, both Italian and international

5. Knowledge of Marketing and administrative, Italian and CRM communities

6. Index calculation and graphic representation

7. Simulations

8. Writing of reports and relations

9. Report and project presentations

Readings/Bibliography

The bibliography integrated in the course for the CLAM, CLEA and the CLABEwill be shown, for the various topics, and lucidly presented in lessons and publications on the AMS-Campus site.

For the required notions defined by ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence), texts for the preparation of ECDL. We can inform you that ECDL preparation tests are allowed to be used and the following book can also be suggested:

ECDL 5.0, il manuale con Atlas, Apogeo ed., Milano, 2008'

Students can make use of anything else in accordance with AICA.

Teaching methods

Teaching methods

• Theoretical lessons

• Presentations of the applications to be studied

• Practical in I.T laboratories, both free and guided.

• Didactic material used in the classroom will be inserted on the AMS-Campus website

• Documentation and exercises suggested by the teachers website

Teaching tools

For the lessons, the teacher will make use of lucid data and information obtained from sources on the Internet, transferred onto spreadsheets and graphs, both simple and dynamic, as well as documents extracted from specialized web-sites. As the lessons and exercises proceed, didactical aids will be swiftly inserted on tothe AMS-Campus.

Office hours

See the website of Ercole Vagnozzi