Courses marked with an * may be repeated for credit because subject matter varies.

CT 144: Introduction to HTML. (1)
Introduction to creating web pages using hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Students learn to edit HTML in a text editor, create basic web pages, and learn the functions of basic HTML tags for formatting text, linking pages, placing graphics, making tables, and using frames.

CT 165: Introduction to Web Authoring. (3)
This course is an introduction to making and designing web pages using HTML generating software. Students learn how to make well-designed web pages from simple to the complex. Site creation with text, graphics, tables, Cascading Style Sheets, and simple animation effects are included. Design principles as they apply to the World Wide Web are also presented. No knowledge of HTML is required.
(Also offered as IT 165)

DMA 240: Audio/Video for the Web (3)
This course serves as an introduction to digital video (with audio) and its unique aesthetic criteria. This class’ focus is the creation and use of video projects for integration into interactive projects, either for a single participant or for mass Internet presentations, or for the creation of a standalone project.
Prerequisite: DMA 101.

DMA 250: Web Animation and Interactive Multimedia Design. (3)
This course will introduce tools for making interactive multi-media projects in combination with animation (moving image). It will focus on design issues relative to non-linear interactive web sites, games, books, training modules, or experimental projects. Basic Theories and techniques of Animation will also be covered. These projects will be designed primarily for the World Wide Web, however options will be presented for non-web applications. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: DMA 166.

DMA 270: Special Projects in Web/Multimedia. (3)
Students enrolled in this course to concentrate on a specific project, a specific area of multi-media, or to refine their techniques in making well designed web or interactive projects. This course will introduce critical thinking about web aesthetics and culture. Students will research well-designed or aesthetically experimental sites and present their findings as well as work toward utilizing these principles to improve their own projects. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: DMA 250 and IT 165.

IT 145: Web Design Fundamentals: HTML and Style Sheets. (3)
Hands-on course in designing and developing World Wide Web pages using HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). The course will cover HTML tags for text, images, links, lists, simple layouts, complex layouts, tables, frames, style, internal style sheets, and external style sheets. Basic issues in using graphics on the Web will also be covered.
Prerequisite: CT 102

IT 147: Web Usability. (3)
Course in applying the principles of usability to the design, development, and improvement of World Wide Web pages. The course will include an introduction to usability and will focus on the principles of usability applied to page design, content design, site design, Intranet design, design for users with disabilities, and design for international users. Throughout the course, the principles of usability will be supported with facts and data obtained from real users.
Prerequisite: IT 145 or CT 165/IT 165.

IT 148: Web Design: Introduction to JavaScript and DHTML. (3)
Hands-on course in designing and developing World Wide Web pages that include JavaScript. The course will cover scripts for detecting characteristics of the user’s computer, adding dynamic elements to Web pages, such as image rollovers and cycling banners; controlling characteristics of the browser window and the frames that appear in the browser window; adding dynamic events such as date, time, countdowns, and time-specific messages; adding cookies. The course will also include an introduction to DHTML (a combination of HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript) and tips on how to debug JavaScript.
Prerequisite: IT 145.

IT 165: Introduction to Web Authoring. (3)
This course is an introduction to making and designing web pages using HTML generating software. Students learn how to make well-designed web pages from simple to the complex. Site creation with text, graphics, tables, Cascading Style Sheets, and simple animation effects are included. Design principles as they apply to the World Wide Web are also presented. No knowledge of HTML is required.
(Also offered as CT 165)

IT 241: Web Design: Introduction to XML. (3)
Hands-on course in designing and developing dynamic World Wide Web sites using XML (Extensible Markup Language). Students will learn how to use XML, which enables designers to represent the content - or semantic characteristics - of information on Web pages, in conjunction with HTML, which enables designers to represent the appearance - or formatting characteristics - of information on Web pages. They will learn how to use XML to create Web sites that enable information to be shared among servers, clients, and databases.
Prerequisites: IT 145 and CS 160 (or a semester of programming recommended).

IT 242: Web Design: Introduction to Forms. (3)
Hands-on course in designing and developing interactive World Wide Web sites that include forms and allows users to perform transactions. Students will learn how to create forms using HTML, how to write scripts for forms using JavaScripts, and how to write CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts in Perl. These techniques will enable students to create transactional Web sites that allow users to enter information and enable Web servers to get, process, and return the information.
Prerequisite: IT 145.

IT 244: Information Architectures for Complex WebSites. (3)
Course in information architectures for large-scale informational or transactional Web sites. Students will learn how Web architects organize information; design navigation systems, design labeling systems, design search systems, create Web site blueprints, and apply those blueprints to the development of Web sites. Students will create information architectures for their own Web sites.
Prerequisite: IT 145. Recommended IT 148 (previously IT 149)

IT 246: Web Design: Creating a Portfolio. (3)
Course in creating portfolios of Web designs. Students will design and develop examples of informational and/or transactional Web site, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, Perl and/or other Web Technologies.
Prerequisites: IT 145 and IT 148 (previously IT 149) and IT 242.

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