MCCCD Program Description

Major: 3085 Catalog Year: 2024-2025 Effective Term: 2010 Spring Last Admit Term: 2017 Fall Award: AAS Total Credits: 64 CIP Code: 11.0801	Primary College: Initiating College: Mesa Community College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific Program Availability: Field of Interest: Not Found Instructional Council: Computer Information System (12) GPA: 2.0
SOC Code: 15-1134, 27-1014, 27-1024?

Description: The Associate in Applied Science (AAS) in Web Designer is designed to give students a set of skills that could allow them to develop simple websites with static information. Completing the program may lead to such positions as web technician and web designer assistant or to serve as a departmental or personal web publisher.

Required Courses

CIS120DC Adobe Flash Level I: Digital Animation 3
CIS120DF Adobe Photoshop Level I: Digital Imaging 3
CIS133DA Internet/Web Development Level I 3
+CIS166AA Introduction to Java Scripting 3
+CIS220DC Flash: Advanced Animation and ActionScript 3
+CIS233DA Internet/Web Development Level II 3
+CIS233DC Internet Web Development: Dreamweaver 3
+CIS235 e-Commerce 3
+CIS243 Internet/Web Development Level III 3

CIS290AC Computer Information Systems Internship (3) OR
+CIS298AC Special Projects (3) 3

+CIS234 XML Application Development 3

Credits: 33

Restricted Electives
CIS120DB Computer Graphics: Adobe Illustrator 3 MTC/TCM120 Introduction to Sound Design for Film and Video 3 CIS120DK Introduction to Digital Video Editing 3 CIS120DL Digital Video Compositing: After Effects 3 +CIS166AB Web Scripting with Perl/CGI 3 +CIS166AE Web Scripting with PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) 3 +CIS291 Business Video Projects 3 +CIS220DK Advanced Digital Video Production: Premiere 3 CIS224 Project Management Microsoft Project for Windows 3	Credits: 6

General Electives
	Credits:

General Education Requirements

General Education Requirement	Credits: 25-27

General Education Core	Credits: 15-17

First-Year Composition	Credits: 6
Any approved general education course in the First-Year Composition Area 6

Oral Communication	Credits: 3
Any approved general education course in the Oral Communication Area 3

Critical Reading	Credits: 3
CRE101 College Critical Reading and Critical Thinking (3) OR Equivalent by assessment 3

Mathematics	Credits: 3-5
Any approved general education course in the Mathematics Area 3-5

General Education Distribution	Credits: 10

Humanities, Arts and Design	Credits: 3
Any approved general education course in the Humanities and Fine Arts Area 3

Social-Behavioral Sciences	Credits: 3
SBU200 Society and Business 3

Natural Sciences	Credits: 4
Any approved general education course from the Natural Sciences Area 4

Program Competencies
1. Perform the basic applications for graphic design and image correction using Adobe Photoshop. (CIS120DF) 2. Use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents to embed Flash movies for delivery to the World Wide Web. (CIS120DC) 3. Construct and explain an overview of the Internet and its resources to including basic web page development. (CIS133DA) 4. Design, develop, and publish web sites on the Internet using xhtml, css, and multimedia tools such as scripting languages, web graphics applications, web animation, and web editing software. (CIS233DA, CIS233DC, CIS120DC, CIS120DF) 5. Perform the basic applications for graphic design and image correction. (BPC/CIS120DF, BPC/CIS120DC) 6. Produce a work plan which would gain work experience in business or industry. (CIS290AA) 7. Use a microcomputer graphics program to create, store, and print professional charts, graphs, and other visual images for business purposes (CIS120DC, CIS220DC) 8. Design software for Web sites, including client-side script and Common GateWay Interface, (CGI) interactive scripts and web database to create dynamic Web sites using various scripting technologies such as JavaScript, and PHP. (CIS166AA) 9. Develop and explain e-business sites including online marketing and advertising, legal, ethical, and security considerations, credit card and debit transactions. (CIS235) 10. Develop advanced Web sites using a variety of integrated Web development tools. (CIS234) 11. Describe and differentiate skills and concepts needed for industry certification as a Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW) Site Designer. (CIS243)
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites. ++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected. MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: November 24, 2009

All information published is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, but based on the dynamic nature of the curricular process, course and program information is subject to change in order to reflect the most current information available.