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-====== Course Outline ======
+====== Course Syllabus ======
-The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:
-===== Week 1 =====
+**Instructor:** Professor Melanie Baljko
-Your notes here.
+**Course Details:**
+TR,  1-2:30am Farquharsan Life Sciences (FS) 312
-===== Week 2 =====
+**Course Format**
-===== Midterm =====
+  * 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>)
-===== Drop Deadline =====
-===== Week 13 =====
+===== Course Objectives ======
-===== Final Exam =====
+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)