Course · SFT6535
Design and administration in MS EXCEL
Course information
- Course code
- SFT6535
- Credits (ECTS)
- 5
- L + S + Lab
- 0 + 15 + 30
- Year / semester
- Year 3 / semester 5
- Level of course
- Bachelor's degree
- Component
- Minor
- Cycle
- PD
- Final assessment
- Examination
- Educational programme
- 6B06106 Computing and software
- Curriculum
- Вычислительная техника и программное обеспечение (2024-2028)
Minor track course.
Course description
This course will allow to become familiar with the Microsoft Excel as the most popular data processing
software in business. It is designed to make a beginner to learn the basic functionality of Excel.
This course is mostly considered as a general overview of MS Excel and includes practical cases for skills
honing and material assimilation. Main topics of the course are:
• navigating Excel;
• expression entry and common excel functions;
• other excel functions;
• managing data;
• plotting, importing data and converting to other file types;
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
• operate excel on a confident-user level;
• manage considerably large-scale data;
• * embody personal data analysis skills though Excel functionality;
• adapt Excel sheets for different problems / cases / purposes.
Student workload
| Type of work | Hours per week | Weeks | Total hours per semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seminars and practical classes (S) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Laboratory work (Lab) | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Independent work under instructor supervision | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Independent student work | 6 | 15 | 90 |
| Total | 150 |
1 credit = 30 academic hours; a semester lasts 15 weeks.
Source: Platonus, working curriculum for the 2026–2027 academic year.
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