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Humanity created the web. And it was good.
Humanity then embarked upon a great frenzy of web site
construction. The results of this have been decidedly
mixed.
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CMC at UAH was created with the aim of producing
graduates who will eliminate those mixed results. The
web cognate was designed to teach enduring principles
that are instrumental to superior web site
architecture, to bring a different type of web
professional to the web development community. By
melding a web-related curriculum from the fields of
information services, communication arts, and graphic
design, the web cognate at UAH produces a graduate who
is capable of creating superior design in all aspects
of web site architecture.
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The web cognate is a 40 hour program requiring two
full years of study for completion. The curriculum is
divided equally among courses in communications,
graphic design, and management of information services
(MIS). From the MIS courses, graduates of the web
cognate learn the fundamentals of HTML, JavaScript
coding, and ColdFusion. Art studio courses instruct
the web developer in the principles of color theory
and two dimensional design, page layout, and extensive
application of graphic design principles in a web
environment. The communication classes teach the
student principles of site navigation and
organization, how to most effectively present content
on the web, and how the web site can be used as a new
environment for rhetorical exposition to the web user.
By combining these three areas of web-related study,
CMC at UAH provides a degree of separation between its
graduates and the typical web site developer.
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