0102-415-01 Digital Entrepreneurship
Course Section Number: 0102-415-01
Title: Digital Entrepreneurship
Digital Entrepreneurship brings together state-of-the-art knowledge in
digital business practices with basic instruction in entrepreneurship
and business planning. This highly interactive, applied experience
will allow students to develop business ideas, discover RIT resources
that support new ventures, network with and learn from industry
experts, and complete a professional plan to communicate and advance
a digital business venture. Student work for this course will involve
research and analysis of electronic marketplaces and, ultimately, the
design and development of competitive digital startups. (Junior
status) Credit 4
0105-440 Internet Marketing
The course examines the impact of the Internet on traditional marketing and the new form of marketing. It explores the impact of the Internet on marketing strategy and tactics. It explicitly considers using the Internet to increase the value delivered to customers and improve a firm's competitiveness.
4002-538/4004-738 Multi User Multimedia Spaces
This course will focus on the development of interactive applications that use network connectivity to allow multiple users to interact with each other in real time and in a persistent virtual community. The course will integrate multiple technologies dealing with connectivity, database access, server-side logic and object-oriented programming environments. Important Human Computer Interaction (HCI) issues will be raised around design and processing of messages and the traffic patterns generated by multi-user messaging. (4002-434 and third year standing) Class 4, Lab 0, Credit 4
4002-892 Computer Supported Collaborative Work
This course will examine the role of information technology in collaborative work settings. An overview of relevant theory, technologies, and standards will provide the context for examining the integration and strategic use of email distributed networking, the WWW, conferencing and enhanced messaging.
4004-734 Online Identity, Social and Community Behavior
This course introduces students to the expanding body of research and popular writing on online identity, social and community behavior and its application to the development of new online communities and social software tools. Students will create their own prototypes for online communities and/or software tools, will participate in and evaluate existing online environments.
4004-802 Perspectives on Computer Mediation
This course examines the design and implementation of software for computer mediation from several perspectives: the computer support for cooperative work (CSCW) perspective addresses activity and organization management, the computer-mediated collaboration (CMC) perspective addresses social systems for computing, and the computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) perspective addresses collaborative and constructivist learning systems. Students will investigate the design and implementation of computer mediated experiences across several domains, including, but not limited to: social computing, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, computer-based learning environments, entertainment and gaming systems, as well as visualization and simulation systems. Students will be required to work in teams to create a large-scale computer mediated project.
Interactive Multimedia Project Class, Spring 2009
This project-based class will work with the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle to create an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) for the Rochester community, focused on history and innovation in the area. Students will serve as writers, puzzle designers, artists, coders, project managers, and more. Contact Elizabeth Lawley (ell@mail.rit.edu) for more information on the class.