LIBR 500: FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (3) -- COurse Description

[PREVIOUSLY: LIBR 500: FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY]

PRE or CO-REQUISITES : LIBR 501 a required co-requisite   

 

GOALS: The goal of this course is to provide students with the foundations of information technologies and their use in knowledge-based organizations.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course students will be able to:

 

• Create a PowerPoint presentation using PowerPoint 2007
• Create simple pages using hand-coded HTML
• Create simple pages using an HTML editor
• Create and use external CSS stylesheets
• Create a World Wide Web presentation using a WYSIWYG program
• Understand the basic concepts of relationbal database design
• Understand and be able to discuss the course topics listed below
 

 

Course Topics:

• Information - Technologies & Representation
• Networks, the Internet & the WWW
• Information Retrieval
• Web Design, Information Architecture and HCI
• Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Beyond
• Database Design