Zicklin School of Business - Baruch College
City University of New York
Electronic Commerce
CIS 9444
Welcome to the home page for the Course: CIS 9444
Electronic Commerce at the
Zicklin School of Business,
Baruch College,
CUNY.
Professor
Dr. Richard Holowczak
Office Number: 11-245
Phone: 646 - 312 - 3371
Fax: 646 - 312 - 3351
E-Mail: richard_holowczak@baruch.cuny.edu (Preferred)
Course WWW : http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/holowczak/classes/9444/
Course Objectives
This course is a comprehensive introduction
to electronic commerce taken from a CIS perspective. The issues
addressed cover the technical infrastructure, business impact,
and global considerations surrounding the analysis and
implementation of electronic commerce. Students will be
exposed to a variety of resources and media including respected
academic articles in the relevant literature, product and
service information from EC vendors and the trade press,
existing EC implementations on the Internet and hands-on
exposure in our instructional computer lab.
Topics Include:
- Introduction to EC
- Introduction to Integrated EC Systems
- Introduction to the Internet/Intranets/Extranets
- EC Infrastructure:
- Computer Networks and the Internet
- Electronic Data Interchange
- The World Wide Web, HTML and XML
- Databases for EC, Electronic Catalogs
- Security and Encryption
- Electronic Transactions and Payment Mechanisms
- Conventional payment mechanisms: Cash, Credit cards, checks, debit cards, EFT.
Costs per transaction, potential for fraud, anonymity, ease of use for buyers and sellers.
- Electronic payment mechanisms (general): Wallets, Digital Cash, EFT, E-checks,
charge aggregators, micropayments, SET
- Specific payment mechanisms and implementations
- Convergence of on-line and off-line commerce
- Integrated Electronic Commerce Systems
- Front end: User interface, settings for shopping experiences, payment systems interface
- Back end: Databases for Catalogs, Products, pricing, promotions orders, fulfillment,
settlement, accounting
- Commercial Web store fronts, electronic malls
- Legal, Ethical and Economic Aspects of Global Electronic Commerce
- Upholding intellectual property rights
- Taxation and legislation
- Trade regulations
- Challenges of Global markets
- Governmental EC
- Challenges and Opportunities for small and medium sized enterprises
Course Page Contents
NOTE: I am not teaching CIS 9444 in the Fall, 2001 semester!
Those of you who are new to the World Wide Web or who
would like to learn more about the Internet and
Internet tools, please visit the
Computer
Network Applications home page.
Please Note: No Grades, Exams or Student Information are
maintained at this site, or on any system accessible via the Internet.
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