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This is an Internet-based course. Graded elements will be due every week. This course requires that students access the Internet every week for course information, retrieval of course documents, and submission of graded elements. Students will have to be able to download software for use in this course, and may have to purchase headphones and/or microphones in order to complete one of the major elements. Consequently, those students who do not have access to a high-speed Internet may have difficulty.

A formal oral presentation is required. This will be accomplished by building a PowerPoint slide show, recording the spoken component (microphone and speakers required - these will not be provided by the university), and building, zipping, and loading the presentation in BlackBoard. Students will be required to use a microphone and have speakers for listening to and recording presentations. This equipment may have to be provided by the student. This is not a trival assignment, and must be completed at least one week before it is to be viewed in order to solve any related problems in a timely manner.

Students must be willing to become proficient with the Internet tools used in the course. Students wishing to avoid the challenges imposed for the Internet-based version should register for the "live" lecture section.

We will be using Blackboard for this course.

In order to access Blackboard you must have your have an active Old Dominion University Student e-mail account.

Tutorials for Blackboard can be on the Blackboard StudentHelp Page including instructions for Logging on

HANDOUTS:

• Course Syllabus
  
• Forum Requirements
• Written Project Requirements
• Current Event Requirements
  
• Discussion Requirements
  
  

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  COURSE CONTENT:

  Module 1: History of Computers

  Module 2: History of the Internet

  Module 3: Societal Issues

  Module 4: Communications

  Module 5: Privacy

  Module 6: Computer Crime

  Module 7: Security Measures and Encryption

  Module 8: Private Sector

  Module 9: Education

  Module 10: Business

  Module 11: Transportation

  Module 12: Medicine

  Module 13: Reliability

  Module 14: Intellectual Property

  GRADING:

  Final grades will be based on following weights:

  Current Events		15%
  Examinations (2)		30%
  Final Paper		20%
  Forum Presentation		20%
  Discussion Participation		15%

  Grades will be posted in Blackboard
  

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  IMPORTANT DATES - Please Refer to Blackboard