====== Course Syllabus ======


**Instructor:** Professor Melanie Baljko

**Course Details:** 
TR,  1-2:30am Farquharsan Life Sciences (FS) 312

**Course Format** 

  * Two 90-minute meetings per week (24 class meetings)
  * The course web site should be monitored //in advance// of each class meeting.
  * Additional contact with the instructor, as needed (see <item link=":contact">Contact</item>)


===== Course Objectives ======

This course provides a forum in which students will investigate the
concepts and the technology relevant to a broad class of hypertext and
hypermedia applications.  Students will lead classroom discussions and
will apply their expertise in the design of an application.  Upon
successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  * **Access** the research literature on hypertext and hypermedia systems (through their knowledge of the main journals and conferences and the main centers of research)

  * **Describe** the key issues concerning the definition and meaning of terms such as //hypertext// and //hypermedia//,  and **distinguish** related notions such as //multimedia//  and //multimodal//.

  * **Identify** and **describe** the characteristics of hypertext and hypermedia; **characterize** hypermedia  applications and distinguish them from other software applications.

  * **Characterize** the primary //hypermedia information
    models//

  * **Identify** the //outcome attributes// that are relevant in the evaluation of hypermedia applications.

  * **Design**, **implement** and **evaluate** a hypermedia application (course project)