Class: Working on a Web Team
Time: Winter 2010  – T/Th, 05:30PM to 06:50PM in BE3179
Credits: 3.0
Class Hours: 33
Type of Course: Workforce Education Preparatory
Length of Course: 11 weeks
Prerequisite: WEB110

Course Description:

This course provides an overview of different web-related careers in the context of web team job descriptions, functions, workflow, processes, and overall project management.

Course Goals:

Through lectures and assignment exercises, students will gain a hands on experience with various project management, client and customer relations and communication techniques as they relate to different roles that each member working on a project team plays in the web design industry necessary for a project’s success.

Course Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of WEB105, the student will be able to:

  • Explore the different web-related career paths and skill sets required to succeed in various web-related career positions
  • Develop documentation of the project scope in terms of the client’s needs and the needs of their users
  • Use project management strategies to successfully plan and complete major web-based projects
  • Communicate effectively (orally and in writing) the terms and specifications of a web-based project
  • Use the terminology in the web industry
  • Describe the types of work and critical-thinking strategies associated with each position in a web team
  • Use (appropriate) software to effectively give written and visual presentations

Required Text:

Evaluation Methods:

Assignments will create an overall Class Project worth 75% of your grade:

  • Assignments require critical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Assignments will be “assigned” each week according to the class schedule
  • Assignments will be “due” according the assignment pages
  • Students are responsible for assignment information on assignment pages
  • Students are also responsible for assignment information given in class
  • Assignments will be marked down 25% for every week they are late

A Final Exam will be worth 25% of your grade:

  • The Final Exam will be held during Final’s Week

ADA Confirmation:

(Americans with Disabilities Act) If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have emergency medical information to share with me, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please contact me ASAP.

 

12 Comments:

  1. Kris Luminar says:

    This is rad. Tricks IE6 users into updating their browser. http://ie6update.com/

  2. Elise says:

    http://mashable.com/2010/04/02/sites-finding-web-work/

    Easy ways to find work as a Web Designer/Developer.

  3. Elise says:

    This is a great “top 6 of the top 10 lists” that other programmers have written to keep in mind when on a project :)

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/top-6-list-of-programming-top-10-lists.html

  4. Elise says:

    A layman’s-term-guide to writing HTML:
    http://www.cracked.com/funny-1690-html/
    Language is NSFW, but the content is hilarious.

  5. Mike Parker says:

    How a web design goes straight to hell:

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

    (Hilarious)

  6. Paris says:

    What Fight Club Teaches Us About Freelancing

    http://tinyurl.com/yfs9gf4

  7. Matt Coppins says:

    A ton of articles on the legality of copyright usage and pictures and whatever else is legally bound in the design world.

    http://www.notesondesign.net/author/jean-perwin/

  8. Dj Baker says:

    Hey Mike,

    Long time no see! Hope your doing well. A co-worker at Amazon sent me this link to a “Spectrum of User Experience” that would be great to add to your Web team class, esp. the corporate types -vs- freelancers. Beautifully done information graphic.

    cheers, dj

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/formforce/3663684287/sizes/o

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