Web Design BSc (Hons)

Students studying the BSc (Hons) Web Design award come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but will share an underlying interest in web based applications and their technical aesthetic design. Most students will have entry qualifications and / or experience in different fields and are attempting to move into the web design 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 design concepts 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 meeting.


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.