In the evenings most doors are locked to the Science Center, so class members will need to enter through the Science Library doors in order to gain access to the building and then should proceed up the stairs or the elevator to SCI 278. An introduction to the computers and the World Wide Web.
Students learn to search, access, and critically evaluate information available on the Internet.
Topics include an exploration of copyright, privacy, and security issues of digital data and electronic communications, together with the basic computer science underpinning of these issues. Students use HTML and other authoring tools to maintain a web-published portfolio of their Internet research. No prior background with computers is expected. Students with significant computing and Internet experience should consider CS110 or CS111 .