art152 - Web Design One Foundations Syllabus

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

1. Define and name the visible and structural layout and organizational components as well as the underlying code of a website/web app
2. Explain the process of creating a website from idea to finished page and explain the relevance of insights such as Hicks and Fitts laws on this process
3. Create screen-based layouts and the required graphic assets in response to a creative brief and proposal
4. Create valid semantic web pages with HTML5
5. Present web-based solutions to an audience with conceptual and technical explanations and justifications
6. Create web sites and web app from idea to finished product including supporting deliverables such as subject research, style tiles and wireframes
7. Use HTML5, CSS, and development frameworks such as Zurb Foundation.
8. Critique web-based projects based on best practices, conceptual, aesthetic and technical criteria

COURSE DELIVERY

• Class sessions will be by zoom video conference weekly
• You will be asked to perform a variety of tasks both guided and independent.
• You will do outside reading and present your findings in class.
• You are expected to participate in all activities fully and independently.
• You will work both individually and in small groups to do research and reports
• In this course, material is introduced through project-based assignments, lecture, discussion, research, experimentation, critiques and hands-on workshops.
• There are in-class assignments as well as homework assignments.
• Class discussions are based on work produced independently and in workshops therefore it is imperative to meet deadlines, and hand in assignments as they become due.

ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES

In the course you will be expected to present assignments in different forms:

• Preparatory and research studies in the form of writing and sketches that show planning ideas for creative work in response to the course requirements.
• Documentation of project research activities that cite sources used - both as written notes and as practical work. These notes and images should be kept in a course binder including the research for the entire semester.
• Technical and creative notebooks to document processes learned in class and to record information that supports your projects - particularly when learning computing/coding skills.
• Project reports, typed and illustrated with appropriate images / diagrams relevant to the assignment brief, which are manually created and scanned or electronically produced.
• Practical class exercises presented as individual or group work, which involve studies with various media, code or applied creative processes that relate to the course projects.
• Independent homework studies that are presented as a part of your assessed coursework and which form an important part of the course projects process.
• Oral presentations: individual and group activity - as formal assessed activity and as informal class practice. These presentations include spoken critiques of your own work, as well as famous art examples. The experience will add to your learning. Presentations are very important as a professional practice demonstrating the level of your understanding & your communication skills in the subject. The formal presentations also display the standard of your work relating to project content.