Web Design & Development Degree (BS)

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Our Web Design & Development bachelor’s degree is 100% online, regionally accredited and with courses delivered in 7-week sessions you can reach your goal faster. This program integrates all aspects of the field including programming, design, ebusiness and infrastructure. You'll learn:

  • to strategically implement adwords, SEO, analytics and Web 2.0;
  • effective Web page design, management and publishing techniques;
  • to develop effective copy for a Website;
  • usability testing.

Want to add a credential to your resume, whether you have a degree or are working toward one? Check out our online web design and development certificates.

Curriculum

Program Outcomes

Upon completion, graduates with a B.S. Degree in Web Design and Development should be able to:

  • Apply web design principles
  • Apply eBusiness concepts to web-related projects (e.g., analytics, adwords, search engine optimization, web 2.0 for marketing)
  • Apply ethical standards and copyright laws in web-related projects
  • Design effective and usable websites (e.g., quality content, navigational structure, organized layout, site maps)
  • Evaluate websites based on interactivity/design elements and principles (e.g., contrast, alignment, color, space, navigation, user feedback)
  • Write text for web pages, applying appropriate principles
  • Identify web accessibility issues and incorporate accommodations into design (e.g., ADA, browser, Web Accessibility Initiative—WAI, Section 508 Standards)
  • Create and manipulate images from various sources and editing programs (e.g., layering, adjusting, transforming, optimizing, slicing)
  • Create pages using web authoring software
  • Identify and apply HTML/XML/XSL/CSS tags and attributes for web page design (e.g., title, metadata, table, link, forms, frames, image maps)
  • Apply effective web page management and publishing techniques (e.g., free vs. paid, languages supported, spam filtering options)
  • Maintain site accuracy (e.g., verify links, update content)
  • Create meta tags to be utilized by a variety of search engines
  • Conduct usability testing
  • Use advanced web creation techniques (e.g., modify JavaScript, incorporate browser plug-ins, use CSS, incorporate streaming media)
  • Apply animation tools and techniques
  • Distinguish among components and functions of n-tiered architecture
  • Design websites using appropriate security principles, focusing specifically upon the vulnerabilities inherent in common web and other server and client implementations
  • Explore new internet technologies, tools, and techniques and build, navigate, and interact within them
  • Configure servers and related applications to provide functionality and deliver website content

Testimonials

“Champlain College is our provider of choice when we need education and training for our employees, or when we are looking to hire. Champlain graduates come in the door with real business skills and the ability to apply those skills immediately.”

Dave Winslow
Founder & CEO, Epik One
Vermont

“I was teaching students how to fly. Between flights I began a journey of my own—learning to design web sites. Now the airport has a new web site and a lot of new business.”

Paul P.
Vermont

“Transferring credits was painless and the personal attention I received went way beyond what I expected.”

Warren K.
New Jersey

Career Outlook

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for people in the web design and development field is expected to be excellent, growing faster than the average. This projection is based upon the fact that an increasing number of businesses find that they are not viable without a web presence. Graduates from the Champlain web design and development program will hold an advantage as companies are beginning to expect employees to be able to work cross-functionally, focusing on several different areas of the field at one time.