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CIS 131

Summer, 2000

U. M. A.	Tuesdays
L/A College	10:00am-12:45pm

WEB APPLICATIONS

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to help students learn various web applications useful for conducting business using the World Wide Web and the Internet. Requirements for the course include:

Individual projects: students will work in small teams (generally in pairs) to develop web applications for doing business over the Internet. Guidelines for these web sites will be posted.
Class project: the entire class will contribute to the building of a site listing web resources of particular interest to those setting up a web-related business.
Two exams (see schedule below).

REQUIRED TEXT:
- Gary P. Schneider and James T. Perry, 2000. ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.
  Cambridge, Mass.: Course Technology.
SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES:
- Patrick Carey, 1998. CREATING WEB PAGES WITH HTML. Cambridge, Mass.: Course Technology.
- Joel Sklar, 2000. PRINCIPLES OF WEB DESIGN. Cambridge, Mass.: Course Technology.
- Neal J. Hannon, 1998. THE BUSINESS OF THE INTERNET. Cambridge, Mass.: Course Technology.

CLASS SCHEDULE

DATES	SUBJECTS		READINGS
1. May 23		Course procedures. Traditional commerce versus E-commerce.	Text ch. 1.
2. May 30		Review of HTML & utilities.	Text ch. 2; begin building web sites.
3. June 6		The Internet and the World Wide Web. Intranets and Extranets.	Work on your web sites.
4. June 13		Software tools for web-based commerce.	Text ch. 3.
5. June 20		Software for e-commerce.	Text ch. 4.
6. June 27		Security threats; implementing security systems.	Text chs. 5,6.
7. July 4-7		MIDTERM EXAM — class scheduled for FRIDAY July 7, but we will discuss this in class.	Review chs. 1-6.
8. July 11		Electronic payment systems; marketing & promotion.	Text chs. 7,8.
9. July 18		Marketing & promotion (continued); electronic auctions.	Text chs. 8,10.
10. July 25		Purchasing and support.	Text ch. 9.
11. Aug. 1		Legal issues.	Text ch. 11.
12. Aug. 8		Business plans.	Text ch. 12.
13. Aug. 15		Future of e-commerce.
Aug. 19		Final versions of individual projects must be posted on-line by noon on Saturday.
14. Aug. 22		In-class FINAL EXAM

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