Web design degree starts at Genesee Community College

Web design degree starts at Genesee Community College

In a world where websites and the Internet become the primary source of communication and information for organizations of every size and stripe, Genesee Community College will be offering a new Web Design Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree. This degree will enable the communication and business connectivity within the global marketplace for manufacturers and small businesses, retailers and agricultural organizations, entrepreneurs and home businesses, educational and government agencies.

After just one or two principal classes, students in the Web Design program will have a strong foundation in applications such as Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Director, Photoshop and Illustrator. They will work with HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. Many of the courses are offered both during lunch hour and in the evening to accommodate busy schedules for people with full-time jobs. "Establishing and maintaining a web presence is easy with two or three key courses," said Jim Habermas, professor of computer information systems who will be teaching these courses this fall. "This is a great opportunity especially for organizations to start or enhance their visibility on the Internet. They might be an agricultural business with a small group of employees who may be family members, or a larger company which wants to enhance or update their existing site in-house and assign such a project to an internal employee."

Students who wish to continue in Genesee's program and take the second course in the spring or even complete the AAS Web Design program will gain the technical and aesthetic skill sets needed to conceptualize, create, produce, administer, and maintain a set of interactive web pages. Students will learn the range of skills necessary to become successful web administrators by focusing on several key areas including layout and design and web programming.

An important element of Genesee's Web Design degree is the two tiered co-op experience. In the first semester, students work in class developing a web solution for a fictional company. In semester two, the students are assigned a real business to work with and they apply their web design skills to a real company in the business community which uses the end product at no cost to the company.

The fall semester begins Monday, August 27. Register online at http://www.genesee.edu or by stopping by any of Genesee Community College's seven campus locations.

For information contact the college at 585-343-0055 extension 6207.