E-Commerce

Prerequisites Cos 103, Bus 211 and Eng 100 or permission of instructor. Explores the key life cycle phases of an e-commerce initiative. Students will learn how to plan, design, and evaluate web sites, how to launch an e-business, technology needed for developing e-commerce resources, how to market products, what ethical and legal factors to consider, and how to ensure security and integrity of data in an e-commerce environment. Students will be exposed to the managerial and organizational implications of e-commerce and the relationships between the business and the technology drivers of e-commerce. 3 credit hours.

ELC 206 Oral Communications in the Electronic Age

Prerequisites: Eng 100 or permission of instructor. This course will cover the areas of Telemarketing; web based spoken communications, and ITV presentation. It will prepare students to use the modes and media for delivering oral communication presentation effectively. 3 credit hours.

ELC 310 Introduction to E-Marketing

Prerequisites: Bus 211, Bus 222, and Elc 200 or permission of instructor. The impact of electronic technologies on traditional marketing techniques is explored through readings, discussion, case study analysis and research. Students will gain experience leveraging electronic technologies to achieve the marketing goals of firms and various initiatives, individually and within working groups. Emphasis is on strategic E-marketing planning. Course cumulates with student creation of E-marketing plans for an existing firm or initiative. 3 credit hours.

ELC 312 Computer Programming JAVA

Prerequisite: COS 260 or permission of instructor. JAVA has quickly become the de-facto programming language for the E-commerce community. This course provides students a broad overview of the capabilities of an advanced object-oriented language. Students will learn to create both stand-alone JAVA applications and Java Applets for Web Pages. More advanced JAVA topics such as event handling, exception handling, and multi-threading will be introduced. 3 credit hours

ELC 347 /BUS 3XX /PSA 3XX Project Management

Prerequisites BUS 211 and COS 103 or Instructor’s Permission As product life cycles continue to shrink, professional careers are built on a succession of projects. Time-based competition presents an escalating challenge of compressing project duration, where “due-date” performance is of critical importance. This course explores the “hard” and “soft” techniques of successful project management and is supported by Industry standard project planning software. Students will be expected to create complete project plans for several large simulations of actual projects in their chosen discipline. 3 Credit

ELC 397 eCommerce Internship

Prerequisites: Advisor’s & Instructor’s Permission. The internship is designed to allow Electronic Commerce majors the opportunity to use the knowledge and practices acquired in their program of study in an actual business. The student will also learn specific knowledge of a particular business and industry. The E-Commerce intern will complete a fixed length period of participation in a firm consistent with the intern’s career aspirations. 1 - 12 variable credits.

ELC 478 eCommerce Simulator & Lab

Prerequisites: ELC 498, C0S 381, and COS 420 or permission of instructor. This is the Capstone experience class for the E-Commerce degree program. The student will use skills and knowledge gained in their previous course of study. Students will collectively select an E-Commerce initiative of their own choosing and take it from “vision to fulfillment.” Students will create their own project teams, create and manage a budget for the initiative, seek financing for the initiative, create a project plan for the initiative, market the initiative and take the initiative to completion in an environment simulating real world conditions. 4 credit hours

ELC 498 eCommerce Senior Seminar

Prerequisites: Elc 200 and Elc 310 or permission of the instructor. Explores successful ventures in the field of electronic commerce through case studies. Emphasis is placed on E-Commerce life cycles analysis and critique. Explores current ethical and legal issues of electronic commerce through discussions and seminars. Students will be creating a case study analysis of an existing E-Commerce initiative of their choosing. 3 credit hours.