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Show • PAGE 4 • SUU PREVIEW 1993 Business Ed/Coinputer Info System.sis nelV deparltnent Latest technology is utilized in program fitted to student needs for preparation for the future As Southern Utah University continues to grow, new departments are sometimes created to efficiently accommodate the needs of tudents. This year, one of the new departments was created in the business field with the new business education/computer information systems department, headed by Dr. Larry Olsen, a recipient of the Utah Business Education Association's Teacher of the Year Award. Since joining the SUU faculty in 1962, Olsen has seen a revolution in business education. From a total of three business teachers in 1962, SUU has grown to a faculty of two dozen business professors, including at least six under this new department. Training on manual typewriters has been replaced by training on a business computer system that is ranked in the top 10 percent of all colleges and universities in the country. The department features a comprehensive program in the latest technology and its application in business and education. Course options allow tudents to select the program·best suited to their needs and desires. The options include a one-year certificate in clerical work, two-year certificates in secretarial, office management, business management, CIS applications, and OS n tworking. Students who complete these applied technology programs may use the credit earned in these programs toward a fouryear degree from the department. Bachelor's degrees offered through the department include options for five emphases, three in teaching Students in the BE/CIS department enjoy the benefits of dose student-teacher interaction. and two nonteaching. Nonteaching emphases are in the fields of computer application and computer I networking; and teaching emphases include administrative support, marketing management, and microcomputer systems. In addition, two minors are offered in computer information systems and four are offered in business teacher education. The department also offers students the opportunity to license as a Novell Computer Network Engineer or Novell Computer Network Instructor. In the BE/CIS departm.e nt, students receive training in a variety of areas that are vital to the dayto-day operations of business: secretarial accounting, office procedures, business correspondence, word processing, office management, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, NoveU sy tems manager, networking technology, presentation graphics, telecommunications, and databa e management. Three new courses will be offered in the CIS area next year-telecommunications for business data, pre entation graphics for business, and advanced desktop publishing. Goals for the future, OJ en says, include adding a one-year legal se retary certificate, two-year legal a si tant certificate, a four-year paralegal degree, and a CIS major, pending approval by the State Board of Regents. Whether entering the field of education, or the corporate world, SUU tudents have a reputation of being among the best trained in the Rocky Mountain region. SUU's Library is the key to a \Veil-rounded education According to Graff, the Library continues to update its equipment to give The Library at SUU provides more services than most students can imagine. students the opportunity to use modem, sophisticated equipment. Besjdes the collection of 190,000 books, it has a collection of periodicals; a Another change the Library has made to cater to the needs of students is an Special Collections area including rare, out-of-print books; juvenile books; copy increase in the hours the Library is open. This allows students more research machines and other media materials, and much more. And, if you can't find something in the SU Library, chances are you can order and study time. The hours are: Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m. it through the the Library's inter-library loan program, which can borrow Friday 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. books and magazine articles from almost any university library in the country Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. with no cost to students. The possibilities are endless. Sunday 2 p.m.-10 p.m. The Library also offers a broad range of films, videos, CDs and records for Holiday hours will be posted student use. They are available through the Instructional Media Center, which Telephone: 586-7933 also houses computer programs, slides, pictures, charts, maps, games, models and video tapes. These items can be checked out for two weeks with student 1.0. A student I.D. card is necessary to check out all materials in the Library and students have the opportunity to obtain such a card when school starts (see page 6). "We're making great changes," ays Diana Graff, Library director. One change the Library has enacted is the creation of the Reference Desk, which offers tudent the chance to direct their questions to professional librarians. These librarians are on hand on the main floor of the Library all day to deal with student concerns about researching topic on the computers, finding book , even help with deciding topics for students to do papers on. "This is one of the most important services we have in th Library," Graff said . These librarians can assist students with any number of the Library's research databases, which include periodical abstracts, an index to 1,600 periodicals; the ew York Times Newspaper, including the fuJI text of the past year; Educational Itesources Information Center (ERIC), an index to journals and monographs covering all aspects of education; MLA international Bibliography, an index to language, literature and mythology; the American Business Phone book, which gives the address and phone number for nearly every business in the United States and Canada, and Friendly and helpful seruice is a hallmark of the SUU Library. many more databases. |