BUSN125 - Exploring E-Commerce    

*Note: BUSN125 is an ONLINE class, and the classroom can be found at http://blackboard.highline.edu.

BlackBoard Welcome Video:  Welcome Video   This is the same information you'll find in the "Welcome Letter" on the BlackBoard site..

Office Hours: Monday-Thursday, 11:00AM to 12:30PM, or by appointment, in building 29, room 348.

Required Text: Electronic Commerce. 7th Edition, Gary Schneider. Thomson/Course Technology, 2007.  ISBN: 1-4188-3703-2.   The text is available at the Highline Community College bookstore, or online at http://www.highlinebookstore.com/.

Textbook web site: http://www.course.com/downloads/mis/ecommerce7/

Required Readings: In addition to the text, you will be required to read current articles and web content. You will be expected to apply text and articles to assignments and tests.

Course Overview: This course is the study of how managers utilize technology to improve efficiency and profitability. We will study how electronic commerce, or e-commerce, evolved, how it is utilized today, and how it may be used in the future.  This is not a programming class; rather it is a study of how managers use the tools being developed by programmers to help sell products and services, and to improve internal communications and processes in order to lower costs.

It is an introductory course, including topics such as infrastructure, web-based tools, e-commerce software, security, electronic payment systems, and business and marketing strategies.

Learning Outcomes: At the successful completion of this course, students will:

• Own a basic understanding of what e-commerce is and how it works.
• Understand the basic concepts of the computer systems that support e-commerce.
• Appreciate how business and technology are integrated in modern business.
• Evaluate how e-commerce development, and business/technology integration, affects and will affect basic business practices and environment.

Assessment: Grades will be earned through:

• Assignments – 25%
• Discussion Board Participation – 25%
• Final project -- 20%
• Tests -- 30%

Web Access: Access to a computer and the internet are required for this course. Assignments and projects will regularly require you to be on the web outside of class time. Be sure that you schedule time to use the computer lab and/or have access at home.

Late work: Work can be turned in up to one week late, with a late penalty of 20%. No assignments later than one week will be accepted.  Discussion Board points cannot be made up.

Academic Integrity: Education assumes a high level of trust between the instructor and students. You will be expected to communicate with class members and the instructor in a professional and respectful manner. All work on exams and individual assignments must be the product of your own efforts and, if you are referencing outside sources, you must site those sources in your work.

Statements on Accessibility: If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability; if you have emergency medical information to share with the instructor; or if you need special arrangements, please provide the instructor with a Letter of Accommodation from the Office of Access Services.

Class Completion: If you decide to withdraw from this class, be sure to do so officially through the Registration Office by the December 1st, 2006, deadline date.

Class Schedule: (Subject to change – please note in class when changes are made.)

Key to bullet symbols:
Ø       Individual Assignment (Due by Sunday at 9:00PM of the week.)
v     Exam
 

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