BSc (Hons) Web Development

Full-time, three year degree taken over the normal period of three years

Key features of the Degrees

  • technical knowledge and skills in Web site design and content creation
  • information systems and their management, including programming
  • design, development and management of information content
  • user interaction with information including HCI, usability and accessibility
  • guest lectures from practitioners at all levels

Choosing this route

The department has a history of using the Internet and earlier networks for over 30 years. The department has taught web design for over 10 years and through a combination of practice and theory provides a unique slant on web development, one that focuses on the information and the user.

This route aims to provide more than just the technical skills required for a web development post or project. Students are expected to study the theories and practical aspects of ‘Design for All’, understanding the strengths that both usability and accessibility bring to any web based application. It also includes skills of information management and information retrieval that are required to develop successful information spaces such as web sites and intranets and information spaces that can be used successfully by their intended audience. In simple language, developing web sites that work.

Career opportunities

The range of information and web-related posts in the public and private sectors is growing and evolving rapidly. Examples include Web Content Officer for a voluntary organisation, Internet Assistant for a local authority, Web Developer at a city centre web design agency and Intranet Manager for a multinational pharmaceutical company.

Some of our recent graduates from Information and Communications are working on electronic government strategies in local authorities and the health service; managing intranets in private enterprises; working as team members in a number of web design agencies and some are running their own businesses. Other graduates have moved on to further study, on to postgraduate teaching courses or Masters’ programmes in advanced technologies such as computing and multimedia production.

Further Information

Assessment

A range of assessment methods are employed by the Department with the aim of allowing students to demonstrate their strengths and abilities in a number of different ways. Assessment includes essay and report writing, practical exercises, presentations, in-class tests and examinations.

Career Opportunities

The range of information and Web-related posts in the public and private sectors is growing and evolving rapidly. Examples include Web Content Officer for a voluntary organisation, Internet Content Librarian for a local authority, and Intranet Manager for a multinational pharmaceutical company.

Some of our recent graduates are working on electronic government strategies in local authorities and the health service; managing intranets in private enterprises; and running their own businesses. Other graduates have moved on to further study, onto postgraduate teaching courses or Masters’ programmes in advanced technologies such as multimedia production.

How to Apply

Applications should be made online through UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) at www.ucas.com

Enquiries

Contact the Admissions Tutor:

Sheila French
Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6148
E-mail: s.french@mmu.ac.uk

Further enquiries can also be made through the Departmental Office:

Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6144
Fax: +44 (0)161 247 6351
E-mail: infcomms-hums@mmu.ac.uk

Department of Information and Communications
Faculty of  Humanities, Law and Social Science
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Geoffrey Manton Building
Rosamond Street West
Off Oxford Road
Manchester
M15 6LL

Course Information

UCAS Code
G450 BSc/WCM

Duration
3 years

Mode(s) of Study
Full-time

Entry Requirements

All applications are considered individually on merit; but offers will normally be based on:

For entry in 2005 - 160 Tariff points from 6-unit awards, of which at least 60 must be from a single 6 unit award.

For entry 2006 onwards - 200 Tariff points from 6-unit awards, of which at least 80 must be from a single 6 unit award.

We take students from A level routes, the AVCE, GNVQ Advanced level, HNC and HND (HNC and HND students may be offered direct entry to year 2 or 3).

We encourage mature students who may have completed an access course recently or studied some time ago. For mature students formal qualification requirements may not apply.

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