In order to be successful in AIS 145 Introduction to MS Word, you must have good keyboarding skill:

AIS  100 Keyboarding or

110 Keyboarding and Document Processing

CIS 103 Intro to Windows is also helpful

or

Instructor's permission.

You will also need to have MS Word   MS Word 2003 or MS WORD 2007 or access to either  if you are taking this course online.