The concentration in Web Development is a complement of courses that are chosen to round out the background needed to do web development for a student completing a BA degree in computer science. Where the CS curriculum provides the computing coursework necessary for this application area, there are additional courses necessary to give student the art and design background that they need. While there are four courses to the concentration, there are also two additional courses that should be taken which will satisfy some of the student's Area Studies. There is also a computer science elective that must be included among a students two major electives.

Area II

COM 205 Mass Communication & Society

Area III

ENG 207 Word and Image

Concentration Courses:

FAS 110 Two Dimensional Foundations
FAS 113 Studio Design I

and two of the following

FAS 111 Studio Drawing I
FAS 112 Studio Painting I
FAS 114 Introduction to Still Photography
ENG 385 Persuasive Writing

Required Elective:

CSC 380 - Web Development

Topics will include:

History of the Web
Design for the Web including fonts and typography
Graphics issues including VRML and Multimedia
Web development tools
E-commerce
Profiling/Cookies
Creating Online Communities
Programming and Scripting (including CGI, Perl, Java, JavaScript)
Database access
Client/Server mechanisms
Search Engines, internal and external
Copyright and use of copyrighted materials
HTML, DHTML, SHTML, XML
Security issues
Ethical issues
Cultural issues for world-wide access