WEB SPECIALIST

 

WEB SPECIALIST
Center and South Campuses

This third year program is designed as a multi-discipline AAS degree for students from MACA to gain WEB programming skills or for ITCS students in WEB Master/WEB Programming to gain useful experience in the design phase of Web Applications development.

Students completing the MACA degree program in Web Design will gain skills necessary to understand and implement XHTML, XML, and other Web programming and coding techniques. ITCS students will gain invaluable skills in page design and software development tools.

MACA students will find the ITCS courses are designed to be offered online. MACA students must demonstrate proficiency coding and debugging native HTML code*. In addition to the basic equipment and software required for traditional online classes, participants will be required to install curriculum specific software such as Personal Web Server, Visual Studio.Net, and Dreamweaver. Each of these packages is available at very deeply discounted pricing for students, some are free, or are available as a 60-90 day trial offer or as fully functioning programs shipped with textbooks. Texts and supplemental resource guides and programming manuals have been carefully chosen so as to reduce out-of-pocket expense for students.

ITCS students will find that the MACA courses are traditional lab intensive courses offered primarily at South Campus. College resources are available to support in-lab use of specialized software packages necessary for the completion of this track.

To talk with an MACA program advisor, please call 586.445.7435.

To talk with an ITCS program advisor, please call 586.445.7167.

* Coding & Debugging skills can be acquired in the introduction to Web Programming and Javascript course taught in the ITWP area.

ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
(Minimum 106 Semester Hours)

A1. Prerequisite: Completion of the Associate of Applied Science degree in Media & Communication Arts - Interactive Web Media

Course Course Title Suggested
Sequence
Sem
Hrs
ITWP-1000 Introduction to Web Programming X         3.0
ITWP-1050 Basic Web Design With Cascading Style Sheets X       3.0
ITWP-1100 Web Programming with JavaScript & Dynamic HTML X       3.0
ITWP-1400 SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for the Web   X     4.0
ITWP-2300 Building Dynamic, Intelligent Web Based Solutions with ASP.NET   X     3.0
ITWP-2400 Web Programming with XML     X   3.0
ITWP-2600 Web Commerce (E-commerce)     X   3.0
ITWP-2750 Web Programming: PHP     X   3.0
ITWP-2810 Web Principles for Industry       X 3.0
  28.0

A2. Prerequisite: Completion of the Associate of Applied Science degree in Information Technology - Web Site Programming - Web Master/Web Programming

Course Course Title Suggested
Sequence
Sem
Hrs
MACA-1050 Digital Layout X       4.0
OR  
MACA-1055 Digital Layout: Adobe X       4.0
AND  
MACA-2300 Advanced Photoshop X       4.0
MACA-2200 Digital Editing X       4.0
MACA-1720 Web Page Design: Dreamweaver X       4.0
MACA-2720 Flash Multimedia 1   X     4.0
MACA-2760 Flash Multimedia 2   X     4.0
MACA-2770 Flash Multimedia 3   X     4.0
  28.0

B. Arts and Sciences Component ...............................minimum sem hrs 18

Students should plan Arts and Sciences courses with a counselor, academic advisor, or program advisor.

A&S requirements are already met for students who have completed the AAS degree requirements for their MACA or ITCS web degree.

C. Elective Courses.....................................................................none required

D. Certificate Option

A Certificate will be awarded to students successfully completing 24 or 28 hours in their core concentration (A1 or A2 respectively).

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