Business Use of the Internet

Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems

Office: Room 110

Office Phone: 859-1335

Home Phone: 246-4885

Snow Phone / Cancellation Line: 859-1140

Every Wednesday evening (6 PM to 9:30 PM) in Room 126, beginning on April 7th and ending June 23.

Texts - REQUIRED:

The Business Internet and Intranets: A Manager's Guide to Key Terms and Concepts by Keen, Mougayer & Torregrossa (Harvard Business School Press), ISBN 0-87584-820-6

Net Future by Chuck Martin (McGraw-Hill), ISBN 0-07-041131-X

How Networks Work by 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The objective of this course is to enable managers to return to their businesses ready to access the Internet and use it for communicating, sales, marketing, research, human resource development and customer relations. The use and management of Internet areas such as email, Telnet, FTP, WWW, firewalls, security and encryption are covered.

By the end of the course, the student should:

A (94 - 100) A- (90 - 93) B+ (87 - 89) B (83 - 86) B- (80 - 82)

C+ (77 - 79) C (73 - 76) C- (70 - 72) D+ (67 - 69) D (63 - 66)

D- (60 - 62) F (below 60)

Class Participation 25%

Thought Papers 25%

Course Project 25%

2 Exams 25%

SYLLABUS ALERT!!

This is a dynamic document. Check the schedule frequently for additions. As this is a dynamic and rapidly changing field, I often run across something interesting during the course and add it on. J