David J. Houston

Department of Political Science

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Political Science 596:

Computer Applications in Public Admin.

 

 

Course description:

 

Training in software applications to support research and decision making tasks in public service.  Successful completion certifies proficiency of MPA students in use of software applications for personal computers.  Software: Microsoft Excel, SPSS, Microsoft PowerPoint.

 

The goals of this course are:

 

· Develop the following spreadsheet skills: creating a spreadsheet, manipulating a spreadsheet, creating graphs and importing tables/graphs into a word processing document.

· Develop the following statistical software skills: creating an SPSS data set, creating graphs, performing bivariate statistical analysis and importing tables/graphs into a word processing document.

· To develop the following presentation software skills: creating a slide presentation and importing objects from other software.

· List of tasks to be mastered.

 

Last updated: January 12, 2009