Web Development BSc (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Stoke-On-Trent

£ 9,000 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Stoke-on-trent

  • Duration

    30 Months

This course will let you join a rapidly developing area of computing with excellent opportunities for employment. The sector includes traditional web application development as well as new areas of growth such as mobile applications, mobile gaming and desktop applications.
Named as one of the three best jobs in the UK (Telegraph, 19th September 2013) as a web developer, you can specialise in web design or web programming - or gain skills in both. You'll have access to Microsoft Certification as you progress through this course via our Microsoft IT Academy membership.
Bulding on the foundations of your previous level 5 study, you'll gain a solid understanding of industry standard design and development technologies, methods and languages. This includes web page design, HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. You'll learn about web design for a range of devices, including desktop browsers, smart phones and tablets. And you'll cover areas such as social media, search engine optimisation (SEO) and using third party application programming interfaces (API's). You'll also learn about the business issues and opportunities facing web developers today.
You'll get to develop a portfolio of work and you'll work with a real business on a real web project - from conception to implementation. On the sandwich version of our award, you can spend a year working as a web developer to gain experience in the field.
In your final year, you'll complete a project showcasing your skills as a web developer and you'll have the chance to present your work in a graduate exhibition to local businesses.
Throughout your time here you will have the opportunity to attend Industry Guest Lectures.

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Location

Start date

Stoke-On-Trent (Staffordshire)
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College Road, ST4 2DE

Start date

On request

About this course

Applicants are expected to hold an HND or Foundation Degree in a Computing Discipline. Other equivalent qualifications and / or experience may be considered on an individual basis.

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Subjects

  • Web
  • Design
  • Project
  • Media
  • Web Development
  • Industry
  • Programming
  • Teaching
  • Application Development

Course programme



Students studying the BSc (Hons) Web Development award come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but will share an underlying interest in the Internet and web based application development. Most students will have entry qualifications and / or experience in different fields and are attempting to move into the web development field by studying the award.

Each module on the award is designed to ensure subject content, teaching delivery and assessment contribute to meet overall outcomes of the award. In choosing teaching and learning methods we ensure that the specific mechanism of delivery, the provided learning opportunity, and subsequent approach to assessment of the student's achievement form a combined equation that supports and enhances the entire education process. Modules on this award are highly practical, and have to be mirroring industry practices.

Teaching delivery methods used include lectures that will not only deliver material but also actively encourage the student to contribute to the session, problem-based tutorials following a specification where students work either individually or as groups to develop a solution, practical laboratory sessions where web technologies are learned from the key basic concepts and fundamentals through to fuller applications development, and general group-based activities. Learning approaches will include: case studies where students will need to carry out analysis, design, implementation, and testing of solutions, research investigations and library work, presentations and seminar contributions, resource based learning through the Blackboard VLE, and independent reading to further develop their knowledge whilst off campus. In the final year of the award students will write a final year project dissertation which enables them to put into practice all they have learned being supported by a supervisor and weekly project meetings.


There is a core module `Web Project which is normally a group based project used to mirror real world practices. The students on this module will normally work as groups each group having a mix of designers, programmers, media and enterprise people. The students will be given a real life case study to research, design and program a web application solution for, with each type of student fulfilling their specialised role i.e designers doing design, programmers doing the back-end, media producing and converting media elements, and enterprise people taking care of the business needs. The lecturer will act as a facilitator, to what will be mainly a research based module. This should help students both with their final year project and also help them with employment afterwards as they will be able to show how they would work in a real world scenario.

Additional information

Top-up to degree course High demand for Web Development graduates A flexible course with lots of option modules to choose a study path Opportunities to gain Microsoft and other forms of certification Built in work placement opportunity Study computer science and the latest technologies that industry is and will be using

Web Development BSc (Hons)

£ 9,000 + VAT