Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: PGCert 1 year part-time
This course focuses on a user-based approach to designing websites and implementation through standards-based, accessible code. It is also suitable for those wishing to develop a personal project. The course covers coding, user-centred planning and design, the optimisation and manipulation of images and the delivery of a final published project.
The programme offers practical workshops taught by commercial developers and users, encouraging you to work creatively within an online culture. By the time you start the final module, you will have acquired the skills needed to design and produce a professional website that is both usable and accessible, and that conforms to international standards and guidelines.
Sessions focus on learning the skills to evaluate, design, develop and maintain personal or business digital projects. You will gain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the medium and will use internet tools to create web-based portfolios and projects.
You will be expected to be a graduate with IT skills and to have at least one year’s experience in training, education, human resources, publishing, marketing or associated media development.
Non-graduates with at least three years’ experience and IT skills are also welcome to apply.
Students should submit a detailed application with evidence of their level, demonstrated by existing work they have completed on the web, if requested.
As part of the application process, you are required to complete a two-part admissions exercise asking you to indicate your experience in digital media and to demonstrate your ability to develop a simple Web page using HTML.
Part-time home/EU students: £2800 pa Part-time international students: £5075 pa
Graduates have used the course to change direction into areas of growing demand in digital or to add value to their existing skills, taking on additional responsibilities at work. Organisations look for individuals who have evidence of digital skills, understand the context of web design and development, and have a record of personal and professional development. As such, the broad scope and context of the course and its focus on standards offer opportunities to break into both the digital industry and organisations that seek to take advantage of digital.
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