Class Time: Fridays
6:00 – 10:00 PM
Class Location: Sverdrup 202
Instructor: Noel
J Petit Office: Sverdrup
203D Phone (Office)
612-330-1061 E-mail: petit@augsburg.edu
Text: Computer Networks and Internets, Douglas E. Comer, Prentice-Hall, 5th Edition, 2009
This course will study topics in computer networking and communication. The course will be made of three components:
1) On-line instruction and quizzes
2) Demonstration Sessions
3) Weekly help sessions
On-Line Instruction/Quizzes
The course will run using an on-line tool called Moodle.
You will need access to AugNet for this course and should contact the IT department at Augsburg if you do not have a login and password for AugNet (this is the same login and password used for "augsburg.edu" web-mail). If you have another e-mail account you will still need to get an Augsburg login from IT in one of the following ways;
http://www.augsburg.edu/stucomp/
email:stucomp@augsburg.edu
phone: 612-330-1400
visit: Student Computing Desk on the second floor (link level) of the library.
The text has 32 chapters. We will take them in order and roughly about 5 chapters per WEC Session. I will post a quiz for each chapter. Sometimes the quiz will require you to search the Internet or use some internet tool. You will have to spend about 2-3 hours per chapter on the internet reading, researching and taking the quiz.
Grading will be based on your total quiz grades and an on-line Final Exam. Quiz
questions will be available in Moodle before you take
the quiz. You can research the questions ahead of time as you get only one
chance to take the quiz. Quizzes will be available for two weeks. You will have
to keep up with the quizzes as they will be taken off Moodle approximately two weeks after we discuss the
chapter. The Final is a comprehensive on-line 20 question
quiz (using the same format as the chapter quizzes).
Demonstration
Sessions - SEE MOODLE CALENDAR FOR CLASS SCHEDULE
Help Sessions – we will arrange a convenient evening for Help Sessions in Sverdrup 203G. I can arrange other help and question sessions if you cannot attend the regular help sessions. I will check e-mail daily at about 7 AM and 7 PM if you have questions. We can also do help sessions on Facebook.com or any other means you might find convenient.
Below I have listed the chapters and the WEC sessions that they will be
covered. Exact quiz dates will be posted on the Moodle
calendar. See the class calendar in Moodle.
|
Date |
Topic |
Chapters |
|
11 September |
Introduction and Internet
Applications |
1-4 |
|
25 September |
Data Transmission, Modulation,
Multiplexing |
5-12 |
|
9 October |
Packets, Ethernet, Wireless |
13-16 |
|
23 October |
LAN, MAN, WAN |
17-19 |
|
6 November |
Internet Protocol, IPv6 and
ICMP |
20-24 |
|
20 November |
Transport and Routing,
Performance |
25-28 |
|
4 December |
Multimedia, Security,
Management |
29-32 |
|
11 December |
Summary and Comprehensive
Final |
|