The World-wide Web as a Research Tool

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190

1-3 units

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Course Description

This course is intended for upper division undergraduates and graduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It will provide students an opportunity to learn how to use the WWW for research purposes and for development of course related and research oriented projects.

Students will learn how to: search for and locate materials available on the Web; become familiar with a variety of Web sites useful for research and information sources; create their own Web documents using HTML; evaluate the information found by searching the Web; develop, design and evaluate a project of their own choosing suitable for placement on a Web site. At the beginning of the semester students should have in mind a possible project that involves use of information and information resources in the Humanities or Social Sciences.

Prerequisites

None
Last updated: January 10, 2017