BCIS 121 - Introduction to the Internet Syllabus
Fall 2000 First 9 weeks - on-line class
Tentative Schedule

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Instructor:  Marge Hohly
Email address:  Hohly@cerritos.edu
Home page:  http://www.cerritos.edu/hohly
Location & Time:  Orientation in BE-10 Saturday, August 19, 2000
9:00-1:30 p.m.
Ticket number:   #6081
Phone number:  (562) 860-2451 Ext. 2736 voice mail available 
(562) 467-5033 (BE-12) no voice mail
Office hours:  3:45-5:00 p.m. Monday in either BE-12 or SS-25 
10:00-10:15 p.m. Wednesday in BE-12
4:30-6:00 p.m. Thursday in SS-25 or BE-12
Office: SS-25

 

Text: 

Select Lab Series: Projects for the Internet
by Linda Ericksen & Emily Kim
ISBN 0-201-30422-8
Picture of the textbook

 

Materials:  Two (2) 3.5" diskettes

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  BASIS FOR DETERMINING COURSE GRADE

Lab Assignments 10 @ 30 points each

300

Written Assignment 1 @ 35 point each

35

Hunts 2 @ 10 points each

20

Midterm

50

Final Exam

50

Total Points

455

  A=409, B=364, C=295, D=227, Fail=226 and below

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Tentative Schedule  

Week
Week of

Topics to be covered

Chapters/
Projects

Assignments

1
Aug. 14

  • Introduction to the Internet 
  • Class procedures
  • Email

Overview,
1,
2

Lab 1 - Email 
Lab 2 - Upload Procedure 
Join Mailserv

2
Aug. 21

  • Introduction to the World Wide Web - WWW 
  • World Wide Web 

3,
4

Lab 3 - WWW Introduction 
Lab 4 - WWW Search Tools
Written Assignment

3
Aug. 28

  • Search Engines and Other Tools 

4

Lab 5 - WWW Search 
Hunts

4
Sept. 4

  • ListServe & Mail Serves 
  • UseNet Newsgroups 

2 (pg. 53),
6

Lab 6 - List Serve
Lab 7 - Newsgroups 

5
Sept. 11

  • Midterm  Saturday September 16, 2000 9-1:30 p.m.

 


6
Sept. 18

  • FTP - File Transfer Protocol 
  • Telnet

7(pg. 140-157)

Lab 8 - FTP
Lab 10 - Telnet

7
Sept.25

  • World Wide Web - Home page - HTML 
  •  Internet - Future

5,
8

Lab 10 - Home Page 

8
Oct. 2

  • Internet - Future

 

 

9
Oct. 9

* Final Exam*
Saturday October 14
9-1:30 p.m.

   

          

The lab assignments and links to lecture and supporting materials are found on the class web page.  Please refer to those pages for more information.

The above schedule is subject to change. Changes will be announced through email and listserv. Revisions to schedule will be made to the syllabus and posted on the web page for this class. Lab, written assignment, hunts and supporting materials are posted on the Cerritos College WebCT server at http://webct.cerritos.edu.. It is the students responsibility to retrieve their assignments from the Web page. All assignment must be submitted to your instructor via WebCT. They will ONLY be accepted via WebCT.

Remember it is critical to keep in contact with your instructor.  If you have not been heard from for 3 weeks or are not making academic progress you will be dropped from the class.

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