IT 203 - Internet Concepts and Human Computer Interaction

This course provides an in-depth introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web as a basis for more advanced studies in Internet technologies and tools, web document publishing, Internet design, and communication protocols including TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, telnet, and the tools that use them. This course will also discuss introductory concepts related to Internet servers and their applications, types of Internet clients, client configuration, security fundamentals, Internet development, databases, HTML, and multimedia. Human computer interaction (HCI), as a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and the study of major problems surrounding them, will be discussed. Semester Credit Hours 3.00 semester credit hours Contact Hours: 60.00 Prerequisite: IS 123 Computer Networks. Corequisite: None.