MIS 470 – Data
Communications and Networks
Creighton University, College of Business Administration
Monday 6:15 – 9:00pm, BA 111
Spring 2003
280-2619
(office) 280-2172 (fax)
http://eden.creighton.edu/mis470
The textbook is Business Data Networks and
Telecommunications, fourth edition, by Raymond R. Panko. ISBN is #0130359149. The website for the course is http://eden.creighton.edu/mis470,
and the author’s website is located at http://www.prenhall.com/panko. Check our course website’s News and Views
section daily for course information.
You will also need to subscribe to our class listserve, MIS470@creighton.edu.
You will also need a Creighton University email account, a
Grackle account, and access to the World Wide Web, either at a computer lab,
home, or office. I will provide some of
the supplements. Others will require a library or World Wide Web (WWW) search
by the student.
I am a Creighton staff member, and my office is located in BA
112A. I am at work generally from
8:00am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday.
See above for phone and email information. If you send email with attachments, please note that Creighton
does not allow emails over 4.5 megabytes in size. If you wish to email larger attachments, please email them to terry@terrybegley.com. When you email, please use a subject line
with the words MIS470 in the title so I can identify the message in my
inbox easier.
This course provides an introduction to the concepts and terminology in
data communication, networks, network design and distributed information
systems. These topics include
equipment, protocols and architectures, transmission alternatives, the
communication environment, regulatory issues, and network pricing and
management. A combination of lectures,
discussions, presentations and student projects will be used to understand the
dynamic field of data communications and issues surrounding it.
We will have up
to four individual and up to two group assignments. These will vary according to the topics being covered. The group project will be hands-on work
with networking in the classroom.
There is always something new and exciting in the technology
field. Twice during the course you will
make a presentation to the class on an interesting website, a new product, a
new service, or something new and exciting in the technology field. You can use any of the presentation media in
the classroom. You must turn in a
one-page sheet to me describing to me your site, item or news as you present
your Tech Tip and News. Each item
should take about three minutes to present.
There will be a
total of ten quizzes. A quiz cannot be
made up under any circumstances.
Quizzes may be short answer, true/false, matching or multiple
choice. They may be given out on paper,
assigned via email or on a web page.
If the quiz is a take-home quiz handed out in class, and you are not in
class on the day that the quiz is assigned, you may not make up the quiz. Xerox copies or scanned copies of the quiz
are not acceptable. At the end of the
semester, each student will receive one “bonus” quiz grade. If you miss a quiz, for whatever reason,
this will make it up. If you complete
all the quizzes, this will be an extra set of points for you.
The student is required to take notice of where he or she
stands in regards to their performance and attendance in this class. If special
needs arise, or their is a problem with the students attendance, or grade, the
student is responsible for contacting the professor to discuss those concerns,
in as timely a manner is as reasonable. Students may contact me by any of the
methods listed earlier at any time. Email and telephone voicemail are available
24 hours a day. Failure on the part of the student to proceed under these
guidelines, or to violate any rules set out in this syllabus, or in the Student
Handbook, including those dealing with academic honesty, may result in a
lowering of the students grade, or a grade of F or AF, at the discretion of the
professor.
The following are the grades and their descriptions
available to the students. A student’s grade totally depends on what he or she
has achieved during the course: the grades will be earned, not given.
"A"
indicates not only outstanding achievement but also an unusual degree of
intellectual initiative.
"B"
indicates attainment of above the average, satisfactory for 500-level courses.
"C"
indicates satisfactory but minimum quality work in courses above the 500-level.
"D"
indicates failure—no credit.
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Percentage
Grade |
Letter
|
|
90–100% |
A
|
|
88-89% |
B+ |
|
80-87% |
B |
|
78-79% |
C+ |
|
70-78% |
C |
|
60-69% |
D |
|
59% or
less |
F |
|
Incomplete |
I |
|
Final
Exam Not Taken |
IX |
The point values of the various coursework are given below:
ITEM
|
Points |
|
Quizzes |
200 |
|
Individual Assignments |
200 |
|
Tech Tips and News |
100 |
|
Group Assignments (Up to 2 @50 points each) |
100 |
|
Group Project |
400 |
TOTAL
|
1000 |
All assignments that are handed in late will be docked 10%
per day that they are late, unless arrangements have been made at least 24
hours before the due date. The term
LATE refers to all assignments turned in after the class time on the
assignment's due date. The only
exceptions to the late policy are if the University is closed due to severe
weather (and must be announced on the CU weather hotline). If there are major network or machine
problems, assignment dates will be adjusted for the length of the outage. These outages must be announced on the CU site
http://itnotices.creighton.edu or
at their recorded announcement line at 280-1116.
Please note that all students are expected to attend every
class session on time. Students are
responsible for the material covered each class time, and missed notes, handouts
and URL's should be obtained from another student who was in class that
day. In the case of severe weather
closings and cancellations, call the Creighton Weather Hotline at 280-5800. Since the University is unlikely to cancel
classes, you can also check your email or call my office – if I should decide
that the weather is hazardous I may cancel class and will notify you via email
and will change the greeting on my office voice mail.
Course Outline and Assignments
You will notice that there are plenty of blank dates listed
below. This is due to the nature of the
course. I will announce the class
topics on our class website.
January 19
|
Introductions and Administrivia Syllabus and class overview Set up AMI accounts, etc. Set up groups and operating system assignments Assessment Quiz |
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January
26 |
Chapter One; Core Network Concepts |
February 2
|
Chapter
Two; Standards
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February 9
|
Chapter
Four: A Small Ethernet PC Network
|
February 16
|
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February 23
|
Chapter Eight: TCP/IP Internetworking Module A: More on TCP and IP |
March 1
|
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March 8
|
Spring Break – no class |
March 15
|
Chapter Five; Other LAN Technologies |
March 22
|
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March 29
|
Chapter Seven; Wide Area Networks |
April 5
|
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April 12
|
Chapter Nine; Security Chapter Ten; Network Management and Systems Admin NOTE: This is Easter Monday, and we are scheduled to meet |
April 19
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April 26
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May 3
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Final Exam Time – Presentation of group projects |