Online IST 250 : New Media and the Web

Welcome to the Fact Sheet for Online IST 250, New Media and the Web.

This course provides an introduction to how the world wide web utilizes new media technologies. What you will come away with is not just a basic understanding of the technologies associated with the WWW, but a fundamental appreciation for the broader issues associated with analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating web-based media. In order to prepare yourself to be an information technology leader, you will be forced to look at these issues from a technological perspective, a social perspective, a business perspective, an ethical perspective, a legal perspective, and a governmental perspective.

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