Outline Course

Defence Authority College of Business
Department of Information Technology

COURSE PLAN

1. Course Title: E-Commerce (Computer Application to Business)

2. Course Code: BA (H) 561

3. Program: BBA

4. Semester: Fifth

5. Academic Session: Fall 2009

6. Faculty: Atif Hassan

7. E-mail: aatiff@gmail.com

8. Web Page: http://aatiff.s5.com

9. Discussion Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/aatiff

10. Course Description: Globalization of trade, the emergence of information economies, and the growth of internet have recast the role of e-com in business and management. In other words e-com solutions and infrastructure have become essential for creating competitive firms, managing global corporations, providing useful products and services to customers through a better management of information resources and commercial transactions. This course is designed to integrate the organizational, technical, operational, practical, strategic and decision making aspects of e-com solutions as required in business and management.

11. Course Outline:

|Session No. |Session Topics and Detailed Contents                                 |Pre-Session Work           |Post-Session Work               |
|1-2         |Overview of Electronic Commerce                                       |Read course plan           |--                             |
|3-4         |E-Marketplaces: Structure, Mechanisms, Economics and Impacts         |                           |Get Prepared for a post session|
|             |                                                                     |                           |quiz on next lecture Day       |
|5-6         |Retailing in Electronic Commerce: Products and Services               |General Reading of topics   |Get Prepared for a post session|
|             |                                                                     |and solve the related case |quiz on next lecture Day       |
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