Electronic Commerce

3 hours; 3 creditsHow the Internet can be used to conduct business. Topics covered include: Internet hardware and software, tools and technologies for creating a Web site, characteristics of successful Web sites, new technologies, the future of the Internet, Web communication strategies, security issues, legal and ethical issues, Internet information services, data mining, and global E-commerce. Case studies of successful E-commerce businesses will be examined. This course is the same as Computer and Information Science *1530 [3.2]. Prerequisite: Computer and Information Science 1050, or Computer and Information Science 1110, or Computer and Information Science 1115, or both Computer and Information Science 1113 and 1114, or any course in computing.

Fall, Spring

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