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Stetson University Institute for Technology Education

Web Foundations

The Stetson Web Development Program

Overview
Web Foundations I (Web Development) introduces new Technology students to the components of Web planning, design, and deployment using core technologies including XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Goals
Students should expect exposure to the above Web topics and leave the course with a firm understanding and competency in their relation to Web design.

Training in XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript is the starting point to obtaining these skill which will prove invaluable if student's continue to expand their Web development expertise by learning Web scripting with languages such as PHP and ASP.

A comprehensive course that takes students from zero Web development knowledge to a level of skill that enables them to design, create, and implement industry and standards compliant Web content.

This course is for people who want to obtain skills that make them more competitive in the market of today. Gain the skills and confidence to work on projects involving Web development and know that you work will adhere to the most widely used standards today.

Class Format
The course will be part lecture, part case-study, and part group-review. Each session will specifically target a particular facet of the technology. In this way, the sessions will be organized into an order that meets the students' needs. A portion of class may be opened for guided, hands-on work. Students are required to complete outside reading assignments and complete work on a Case Study prior to each class. Students may be called upon to present their case studies work as it progresses.

Audience:    This course is for you if you are:

  • Someone that is looking to completely retrain into a new career.
  • A person that is in a career but wants to work on Web-based projects on the side.
  • An IT professional that does not currently work in Web design but wants to steer his or her career in that direction.
  • A private consultant that needs to expand business into Web design and wants to ensure that their work will be based on the leading standards for Web content.
  • A current developer that is using software that auto-generates Web content but wants to learn the foundations and techniques presented in our course.

Course Features:

  • Due to the open nature of Web technology, this course is built around open-source, freely available tools. This reduces students costs to zero for tools required in teaching the course content. This also permits us to provide the students with complete copies of every piece of software without violating any license agreements with the providers of the technology.
  • Every tool proposed for the course runs on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. This permits the students to use it at home, making self-study outside the class a reality.

Prerequisites:

  • Familiarity with editing text files using an editor such as Notepad is useful but not required
  • Note: This course assumes no prior development or programming experience.

Schedule

  • Classes meet one night a week in the evening for 14 weeks at the Stetson Center in Celebration.
  • Anticipate approximately 6 hours of outside class work.
  • Includes a class project in the form of a case study for real-world scenarios.
  • Includes a multiple-choice examination which is used to simulate real-world certification exams on the class topics.

This course is offered in the fall and spring.

Contact Information

    Stetson Contact: Rosemary
      E-Mail: rcangelo@stetson.edu
      Phone:: 321-939-7604

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