1. Introduction to Designing and Writing Websites
2. Basic Website Production
This course will use a combination of teaching methods including lecture, demonstration, group discussion, analysis of samples, and in-class and home exercises and projects. The emphasis will be on learning by analysis reinforced with hands-on practice wherever possible. Students will be required to prepare, write, and produce all, or portions of, a client-based website during the course. Students will be required to work collaboratively on selected assignments.
Students are expected to be self-motivated and to demonstrate professionalism, which includes active participation, good attendance, punctuality, effective collaboration, ability to meet deadlines, presentation skills, and accurate self-evaluation.
Evaluation is consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy and will be based on this general format:
| Short assignments (4 to 6) | 60% |
| Website project | 30% |
| Professionalism/participation (as defined above) | 10% |
| 100% |
Students who successfully complete this course will:
Examples of textbooks that may be used for this course include:
Crawford Kilian, Writing for the Web
Janice Redish, Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works.
Acceptance into the Post-Degree Diploma in Professional Communication
or a minimum of 45 credit hours including a university-transfer course in English, Communications, or Creative Writing with a grade of B or higher
or permission of the Professional Communication program coordinator
No corequisite courses.
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer Details for CMNS 3501 |
|---|---|
| Camosun College (CAMO) | CAMO CMNS 1XX (3) |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU CMNS 3XX (3) |
| Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU CMNS 3XXX (3) or TRU JOUR 3XXX (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | No credit |
| Vancouver Island University (VIU) | VIU DIGI 340 (3) |
CMNS 3501 090 is prioritized for Post-Degree Diploma Professional Communication students. Students may request permission by contacting Maureen Nicholson at nicholsonm@douglascollege.ca. with student number, program, and registration date.