E-Business & E-Commerce

MODULE: E-Business & E-Commerce

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 39 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

The Internet has opened doors to a new type of project, the "e-business". These projects are unlike any that have come before: faster development cycles, fuzzier requirements, technology platforms that change almost daily and increasingly complex security issues. This program is designed for managers who need to know how to apply effective and sound practices and decisions to this new commercial environment. The program also considers the particulars of E-commerce or the process of selling products, goods, and services over a Web browser.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 Academic Credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Internet Technology
Web Administration & Security
Web Design & Programming
Web & Database Integration
Online Marketing
International Trade
International Business Law
E-Commerce
Electronic Payments Systems
E-Commerce Solutions
Internet Ethics & Legal Issues
Cyberspace Law
International Finance & Taxation

Academic Supervisor: Jose A. Cordova

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 - 50 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 - 70 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Internet Technology

This course provides a study of the architecture, utilities, services, and protocols of the Internet and World Wide Web. Topics will include markup languages (e.g. HTML), data location resources (e.g. search engines and agents), web page management, scripting languages, TCP/IP, IP routing and servers, reliability, security, electronic commerce, and virtual worlds.

Instructor: Ricardo Miralles

Web Administration & Security

This course shows how to administer a network, setup a server for a network and an Internet environment, design and implement cabling for a network, troubleshoot network security problems related to e-commerce, and how to use networking protocols, TCP/IP architecture and security essentials to include authentication, encryption, and firewalls.

Instructor: Ricardo Miralles

Web Design & Programming

This course evaluates web design tools, discusses technology standards and programming, and explores incompatibility issues surrounding current browsers, design software and programming. It teaches the competencies necessary for designing, developing, publishing, and hosting multimedia web sites. It includes various tools for web design and the development of e-commerce sites, shopping carts and payment methods.

Instructor: Ricardo Miralles

Web & Database Integration

This course develops expertise in database programming and connects interactive web sites to relational databases. It defines the different types of databases and database management systems, describes the differences between a relational database and a non-relational database, and differentiates between Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).

Instructor: Ricardo Miralles

Online Marketing

This course deals with the theory and practice of marketing on the Internet, and focuses on role of Internet in the marketing strategy. It will help to identify web marketing goals, to understand web site promotion, referral programs, and search engine placement, to analyze e-commerce, online sales and customer service methods, to plan a web store, and to think about future trends in e-commerce.

Instructor: Alvaro Venegas Zamorano

International Trade

This course surveys different trade policies pursued by both developed and developing countries. It examines issues important to trade policy such tariffs and non-tariff barriers, safeguards, voluntary restraints, dumping and subsidies. It also covers trade strategies, agricultural trade, developing country rules, and regionalism.

Instructor: Earle Taylor

International Business Law

This course emphasizes the practical application of international business law. It compares legal aspects of business, trade, financing, and contracts under different legal systems. It explains the international means of enforcement, adjudication, and arbitration. Multinational and multicultural in perspective, it examines international organizations and treaties that have an impact on international business.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

E-Commerce

This course explains web commercial services. E-commerce is the name given to the business process of selling products, goods, and services over a Web browser. In its simplest form, it allows a company's product catalog to be hosted on a Web server so that customers and potential customers can visit such site, see what must be done to sell and then place orders. Each E-commerce site is different and requires different considerations.

Instructor: Alvaro Venegas Zamorano

Electronic Payments Systems

This course covers various methods of transferring payments over the Internet and compares their functionality. Topics include electronic money, electronic contracts, micro-payments, authenticity, integrity and reliability of transactions, the encryption and digital signature techniques needed to support electronic cash, and the technologies available to support secure transactions on the Internet.

Instructor: Alvaro Venegas Zamorano

E-Commerce Solutions

This course reviews online business and economy environment and strategies. It provides solutions for the online purchasing and selling of different products and services. It explains how to do business electronically, considers electronic commerce hardware and software requirements, and legal issues regarding Internet usage.

Instructor: Alvaro Venegas Zamorano

Internet Ethics & Legal Issues

This course deals with the cyberculture and the policies that are currently being discussed to ensure proper conduct on the Web. It provides readings and web references on various ethical and legal issues that are shaping the future of our cybersociety. It also provides an enhanced appreciation of the legal issues which affect the development of E-commerce.

Instructor: Ricardo Miralles

Cyberspace Law

This course focuses on the legal issues confronting participants in Cyberspace. Whether viewed as Virtual Space, the Internet or simply the Web, Cyberspace promotes a most challenging interaction of law, public policy, technology and markets. In a provided context of cyber culture and technology, this course examines the key contemporary procedural and issues including jurisdiction, governmental regulation of pornography and indecency, privacy, intellectual property and evolving Internet commerce. It also focuses on the investigation and prosecution of computer crimes.

Instructor: Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera

International Finance & Taxation

This course examines the international financial environment with particular emphasis on the foreign exchange markets and their interrelationships with international financial management and taxation. It also focuses on the principles involved in the taxation of inbound and outbound international transactions; jurisdictional issues; double taxation; taxation of income from inbound and outbound investment; international tax treaties; and fiscal incentives for investment.

Instructor: George Iatridis

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.