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How do we approach web design?

We’ve created a course that specifically addresses the need to ‘design’ — as well as build — websites. The web design industry values graduates who can use the software — and be creative with it too. The course combines creative modules in Design Methodology, Image Manipulation and Typography with technical modules in XHTML, CSS and other relevant mark-up/scripting languages. Work related learning also features extensively.

The creative and technical skills you learn are also repurposed for a print design module, further increasing your employability.

We work closely with professionals to ensure there’s a high degree of industrial relevance to the course, so that you’re ready to make an immediate impact in the web design/graphic design industries.

Who’s the course suitable for?

We recruit students from many different backgrounds: those who are studying — or have studied — on creative courses [for example Graphics or Art and Design]; or those from more technically oriented courses such as ICT or Computing. We welcome industry professionals wishing to gain a formal qualification, or adults wanting to re-skill so they can take up a new career.

How do we teach you?

The course is built around a series of practical assignments that encourage you to investigate the tasks and processes of website production. You develop the knowledge to undertake these assignments through a mixture of lecture, workshop, seminar and self-study activities.

As you gain experience, you’ll also undertake ‘live’ work for external clients in order to contextualise your theoretical studies.

Your progress through the assignments is monitored in a variety of ways: on a daily basis through workshop activities; weekly through seminar sessions; the assignments themselves are formally assessed at the end of each semester.

Over two years you will build a grade profile that determines your final level of achievement. Successful completion of the course will earn you 240 credit points.

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