Web Development MSci

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.
At level 6, 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.
In the final, level 7 (Masters) year you will complete a group project where you demonstrate your skill in working in a team as computing professionals, to produce a computing based solution to some problem and doing so to commercial or near commercial standards. You will also have an opportunity to develop further specialism to extend your well developed web based skills or complement those skills with study in related areas that enrich your overall ability.
Throughout your time here you will have the opportunity to attend Industry Guest Lectures.
In addition to this course being offered as a BSc Honours undergraduate award, it will also be available, subject to validation, as an MSci Integrated Masters degree from September 2016. Integrated Masters awards combine the level of study of the BSc (Hons) Degree with further study at Masters level to create a 4 year integrated programme (or 5 years with a placement).
Applicants who require the Tier 4 visa for a full time study in the UK are not able to apply for the Sandwich degree in the first instance due to Immigration regulations.
We encourage International students on the Tier 4 visa , once enrolled, to apply for a placement. Students who are successful with finding a placement will be provided with help and advice with their visa extension application (subject to the University deadlines and Immigration requirements).

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.


At level 6 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.
At level 7 (Masters level), students will complete a group project where you demonstrate your skill in working in a team as computing professionals, to produce a computing based solution to some problem and doing so to commercial or near commercial standards.