Objectives/Competencies

The student will be able to:

• identify and evaluate the technologies web developers use to create e-commerce websites;
• identify issues of security, privacy, intellectual property, digital currency, and propose web solutions
• undertake comparative cost analysis in terms of doing business online versus the costs of doing business in a physical location;
• understand and apply strategies (such as advertising, risk management) appropriate to conducting business in a digital environment.
• analyze e-commerce sites to identify why some sites work more successfully than others;
• develop a business plan for transacting business in an electronic environment;
• as part of a team process, develop a prototype e-commerce website for a locally-based organization.