Take My Liberty BUSI 424 Class

Liberty's catalog sums up BUSI 424 as an exploration of how the internet has changed the buying and selling of goods and services, naming internet business models, e-commerce infrastructure, online storefront design, payment acceptance and security, and the legal and ethical challenges of electronic commerce.

Laudon and Traver's text is read roughly a chapter a week, eleven chapters in all, each paired with a short video in the published guide.

The first weeks introduce e-commerce as a field, then business models and concepts, then the infrastructure of the internet, the web and mobile platforms.

Week four reads two chapters together, building an e-commerce presence and e-commerce security and payment systems, which is where the catalog's storefront and payment topics sit.

Weeks five and six cover marketing and advertising, then social, mobile and local marketing alongside the ethical, social and political issues of online business.

Week seven reads online retail and services with online content and media, and week eight closes on social networks, auctions and portals.

A 50-point forum is due every week, exams worth 100 close weeks two, four, six and eight, the 50-point faith paper falls in week three and the 150-point research project in week seven.

BUSI 424 runs on a weekly forum, so the class is carried one week ahead: each post is drafted from the coming chapter before its week opens.

Posts answer the prompt with Laudon and Traver's concepts and a real company, Amazon's marketplace model, Shopify's merchant platform, a direct-to-consumer brand's social selling, so each idea is tied to something a reader recognizes.

A security forum, for instance, might explain how tokenization protects card data at checkout and what a small online store should require from its payment processor.

Where a prompt asks for replies to classmates, they are written after the threads appear and add a point the classmate missed.

The faith paper links a biblical principle to an e-commerce practice, such as honesty in online advertising or the use of customer data.

For the week-seven project, the brief your instructor posts decides the shape, and recent sources carry the argument.

The four exams are yours, and nothing in the plan reaches them.

The writer behind BUSI 424 has worked in online business, as an e-commerce manager, a digital marketer, a marketplace seller or a web product manager, usually with a business or information systems degree.

That shows in the examples: conversion rates and cart abandonment, payment gateways and chargebacks, search advertising budgets and marketplace fees.

Technical topics such as web hosting, content delivery networks and encryption are explained accurately but in plain business language.

A second reviewer reads every post, the faith paper and the project against the prompt and rubric.

The writer never learns your name, which stays with the coordinator.

Ahead of an exam you can ask how, say, a portal earns money differently from a marketplace, and get a short answer.

Faith prompts are answered thoughtfully, connecting scripture to honest selling, privacy and the treatment of customers.

The weekly forum is the first difficulty. Eight posts in eight weeks, each worth 50 points, leave no room for a missed week.

The technical chapters are the second. Infrastructure, security and payment systems use vocabulary many business students have not met.

Third comes week four, when the storefront and payments chapters arrive together with Exam 2.

Currency is the fourth. E-commerce changes quickly, and posts that cite old statistics or defunct companies lose credibility.

The research project is the fifth, worth 150 points and due in week seven alongside two chapters and a forum.

Because a 100-point test closes every even week, no two-week stretch is ever quiet.

The faith paper is short, but students who leave it to the end of week three often rush it.

Because Forum 1 is due in week one, the class is best handed over before the term opens.

Each forum post is ready two days before its week's deadline, every week of the course.

The faith piece is in hand as week three begins, and the project lands well before its week-seven cut-off.

Your quote lists eight forums, the faith paper and the research project; the four exams never appear.

A student who starts in week three is quoted for forums three to eight, the faith paper and the project.

The research project is the largest line, and the forums together are the next largest.

Some students keep the forums, which they find quick, and hand over the project and the faith paper.