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Canyon College

online independent study project course at Canyon College

COURSE SYLLABUS: Information Law

Course Title: CST402 - Information Law
Department: Computer Science & Information Technology
Instructor: Kara Ostroski, JD Contact - Vita
Office Number: 972-364-1155
Fax: 972-387-1593

Course Description:

This course is a survey course intended to present the student with a basic foundation for the study of law for e-commerce. This course initially will address how the legal system is struggling to keep up with the changes occurring in the online world. The course will proceed to address torts and crimes that occur in cyberspace such as cyber stalking, cyber theft, online pornography, gambling in cyberspace, hacking and cyber terrorism, patent and copyright infringement and domain name disputes, just to name a few. The presentation of this course will be founded on the intellectual property principles relating to patents, copyrights, trademarks, cyber marks, and trades secrets both in the offline and online environments as well as what legal protections are available. In addition, this course will address how e-commerce affects contracts, consumer protection and privacy, employment relationships, and banking in modern society.

Course Objectives:

Upon the successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
  1. Understand the basic foundation of law.
  2. Understand the Legal Issues pertaining to e-commerce.
  3. Finally, become familiar with the major federal statutes and regulations pertaining e-commerce.
Required Texts: Online Bookstore

Law For E-Commerce
West Publishing, A division of Thomson Learning, 2001
Authors: Roger LeRoy Miller and Gaylord A. Jentz
ISBN: 0324131593

Structure of Course:

This self-study course is designed for students to complete at their own pace. This course will be broken down into a series of lectures based on material that is presented in the chapters of the textbook titled Law For E-Commerce.

Each chapter of the textbook will be presented to students in an outline format. The format will list two separate sections.
1st - A SUMMARY Section. This section will highlight for the students the relevant material that each student should understand upon completing the chapter.

2nd - An ASSIGNMENT Section. This section will list the assignment for the chapter. The assignment for each chapter will remain constant. It will state that the student must complete the chapter evaluation/self assessment exercise.
Suggestions For This Class:

Since this course is a self-study course to be completed at one’s own pace, please note the following:

Grading:

There will be no mid-term or final for this course.

After completing each chapter students will be required to complete chapter evaluations/self assessment learning exercises. Since there are 10 selected chapters in the textbook, students will be required to complete 10 evaluations/ self assessment-learning exercises. The evaluations will be presented in a multiple-choice format and will be will consist of 10 questions. Grades will be determined by adding up the grades earned on each individual evaluation and dividing that sum by 10. Students are graded on chapters 1,2,4,5,6,7,9,10,12,17.

Students are responsible for the material presented in chapters 3,8,11,13,14,15,16, and 18, however, there will not be individual exams on those chapters.

Grading Policy:

90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79 C
60-69 D
Under 60 F

Students are required as part of this course to contact the professor via e-mail once they complete both the Chapter 6 evaluation and following Chapter 12 evaluation. At this time, the instructor would like to discuss the student's progress in this course. Depending on the student's grades, the instructor will provide additional instruction/materials to increase the students understanding of this course. No additional material will be presented to students if the instructor deems that the individual student is progressing at the proper level of achievement for this course.