This course explores the law pertaining to the Internet including copyright, trademark, online business method patents, domain names, online contracts, and jurisdictional issues. Liability issues related to linking, meta-tags, framing, and advertising and marketing will be examined. The course will focus on recent legal developments in various jurisdictions including Europe, the United States and Canada. Knowledge of law relating to the Internet and e-commerce will be conveyed in a lecture and workshop setting involving exercises, role-plays and case studies.

Introduces the external forces in the business environment and the resulting implications for organizations. Examines the place of business in BC and Canada. Focus is on the issues arising from government policies, economics, ethics, social environment, forms of businesses, and the basic components of business operations.

Designed to provide an overview of all aspects of commerce and opportunity on the Internet. Topics include marketing products on the Internet, systems integration, virtual organizations, electronic payment systems, privacy and security concerns, intellectual property, customs and excise issues, emerging issues in telecommunications, and Internet issues where government regulation has been contemplated.

Designed to provide a management overview of E-commerce Systems and technologies including back end applications, middleware and other systems which managers will encounter while doing business on the Internet. Combines a series of lectures, individual, and team-based research projects and provides you with the skills necessary to function in an E-commerce environment. Prerequisites: BUSA 3455

Examines current case examples of Internet trade and E-commerce. The course combines research and projects and is based on team participation and case studies. Case Studies will include success stories, failures and new and evolving business. (It is recommended that students have already completed BUSA 3485 Online Business Management). Prerequisites: BUSA 3455

This is a research and project course where students will prepare a business proposal for a new company that wishes to market products or services on the Internet. A complete strategy for online business will include market research, a cost-benefit analysis, coverage of technical and operational issues such as logistics and promotion, legal requirements, and human impact issues. Prerequisites: BUSA 3455

Positioned as the capstone course in the E Commerce Programs , this course integrates key Strategic Management concepts with the contemporary E Commerce elements of Social/Mobile Commerce, Customer Relationship Management , Customer Profiling , Marketing , Intellectual Property Law/Regulations, Security and other general Web applications. Using real world contemporary case studies to apply and develop specific strategies for general E business application , the course will develop key success factors and ongoing adaptive approaches to accelerated environmental change in a fast moving global economy. Prerequisites: BUSA 3455

This exciting new course focuses on the appreciation of knowledge as a core competency for organizations in the 21st century. Starting with the concepts of the significance of the knowledge worker, the documentation of knowledge and acknowledgement of knowledge management as a philosophy, the course will incorporate contemporary articles and case studies which allow students to develop leadership strategies to optimize the development of knowledge capital in their own organizations.