I agree TW.
A good course teaches you to fish, to borrow from the ancient adage.
therefore html 4/5 is a non-issue.
Therefore any current course would include the complete understanding
of BOTH current and emerging standards and any good student and
practitioner will constantly be remaining aware of progress.
As for web _design_, this ALREADY includes: information architecture,
wireframing, user-centred design research and implementation,
prototyping accessibility and usability, as well as colour, layout,
aesthetics.....
design is not just appearance, it is also engineering, architecture
and usability.
On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:10, Theresa Weber wrote:
I disagree - all knowledge that you learn in a course becomes
outdated but you gain skills that allow you to continue to learn.
Learning how to write valid and accessible HTML is a skill that can
be taught and the graduate will then continue to improve and upgrade
those skills as newer standards standards are released.
I liked the list that Andreas suggested.
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Personally I would see a course in Web Design pointless.
I am doing Computer Science, but with Computer Science the
foundations tend to rarley change. If you set up a Masters in Web
Design it's likley it would become invalid after a while, especially
when HTML 5 and CSS 3 replace the current HTML and CSS.
If it's purley in design then it should cover usability,
accessiblity, aesthetics, design blah blah. The stuff that is
unlikley to change.
Personally though I would focus on Computer Science and if i wanted
to be good at design take up a course in Art or Graphic Design. At
least that way you can use your skills more widely.
James
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Kevin Lennon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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aboehmer wrote:
It could contain a pile of subjects, depending on how far you want
to take it. Here just some ideas:
HTML/CSS
Multimedia (Video, Flash, Podcasts, etc)
Basics in Programming (PHP/VB, etc)
Usability
Accessibility
Search Engine Optimisation
Basics in Graphic Design (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc)
Introduction to Networks/Hosting environments
You could even chuck in some electives of Business subjects.
Masters students would probably want to get their head around
Project Management as well...?
Hope this helps.
Andreas.
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:30:36 +1000
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Subject: [WSG] MA in web development
Hello everyone,
Last night a proposal has been hinted at me to put together an MA
course in
web development for a UK University. That's all I have been told
so far.
I was wondering what people were feeling such a course ought to
contain.
I have my views of course, but would not like to influence the
feedback at
this point.
All suggestions are very much appreciated.
Regards,
Jason Grant
www.flexewebs.com/semantix
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I am currently enrolled in a Web Design and Interactive Media BS
degree program. I have been teaching myself for almost 4 years at
home intensively prior to going into this venture. I have to say
that is offering this degree is teaching its students many things
that are not compliant with the international standards in general.
The fact of the matter is that I believe that the entire school is
in it for the money more thne teaching the students the right and
professional way to be a web designer and developer. As far as
curriculum goes be sure they teach the standards or dont get
involved at all.First off. Secondly I would suggest that you include
a few server side programming languages like PHP and JSP. Be sure to
also cover in depth DBMS as well.
Other universities such as the University of Scranton offer MS
degrees in Software Engineering which you may get some ideas from as
well.
http://academic.scranton.edu/department/gradsch/gsofteng.htm
Hope that helps. I know after reading that I have decided to quit my
current college and go to the University of Scranton as I believe I
will actually learn things there unlike at my current accredited
college.
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