Syllabus
• Web Page Design 1 •
IMED 1316 50
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Cisco Junior College - 2007
Teacher: Robert C. Gates
Abilene Center Office #: 30. Office hours:
• Monday, Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30 am
• Monday, Wednesday 2:30 - 3:30 pm
• Tuesday, Thursday 8:30 - 9:30 am
• Tuesday, Thursday 11:15 am - 12:30
Work Phone: 325 794 4400 extension 4427 during office hours only! Please do not leave voice mail.
Web Page: www.rcgates.com
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CIP CODE AREA: 11.0801
COURSE LEVEL: Introductory
COURSE NUMBER: IMED 1316
COURSE TITLE: Web Page Design 1
CREDIT HOURS: 3 - Lecture Hours: 1: Lab Hours: 4
Course Description: Instruction in web design and related graphic design issues including
mark-up languages, web-sites, and browsers.
Prerequisite: none Transferability: NA
Course Structure: This course will meet for 1 hour a week for 16 weeks. As this is a hybrid
course the four hours laboratory work required per week will be done at the student's discretion.
Required Textbooks & Materials: FrontPage 2003 for Dummies ISBN 0-7645-3882-9
Recommended Optional Materials & Library Resources: Internet search for current concepts
Learning Outcomes/Objectives: Identify how the internet functions with specific attention
to the World Wide Web, e-mail, and file transfer: apply design techniques in the creation and
optimization of graphics and other embedded elements for use in a web page: demonstrate the use
of lists, tables, frames, and forms to createinteractive web pages; create, design, test, and
debug a web site, and identify the benefits and limitations of various web page
development software.
SCANS (Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) competencies:
• RESOURCES (Identifies, organizes, plans, and allocates resources):
C1 - Time: Selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them, allocates time, and prepares
and follows schedules.
• INFORMATIONAL (Acquires and uses information):
C5 - Acquires & evaluates Information
C6 - Organizes & maintains Information
C7 - Interprets and communicates information
C8 - Uses computers to process information
• INTERPERSONAL (Works with others):
None for this course
• SYSTEMS (Understands complex interrelationships):
None for this course
• TECHNOLOGY (Works with a variety of technologies):
None for this course
• BASIC SKILLS (Reads, writes, performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, listens, and speaks):
F1 - Reading: Locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and in documents
such as manuals, graphs, and schedules.
F2 - Writing: Communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing; creates documents
such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs, and flow charts.
F3 - Arithmetic: Performs basic computations; uses basic numerical concepts such as whole
numbers, etc.
F4 - Mathematics: Approaches practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of
mathematical techniques.
• THINKING SKILLS (Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn,
and reasons):
F7 - Creative Thinking: Generates new ideas.
F8 - Decision making: Specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks,
evaluates and chooses best alternative.
F9 - Problem solving: Recognizes problems and devises and implements plan of action.
F10 - Mental visualization: Seeing Things in the Mind’s Eye: Organizes and processes symbols, pictures,
graphs, objects, and other information.
F11 - Knowing how to learn: Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge
and skills.
F12 - Reasoning: Discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects
and applies it when solving a problem.
• PERSONAL QUALITIES (Displays responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity,
and honesty):
F13 - Responsibility: Exerts a high level of effort and perseveres towards goal attainment.
F14 - Self-Esteem: Believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self.
F15 - Sociability: Demonstrates understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and politeness
in group settings.
F16 - Self-Management: Assesses self accurately, sets personal goals, monitors progress, and
exhibits self-control.
F17 - Integrity/Honesty: Chooses ethical courses of action.
Methods of Assessment / Grading Policy
• Average of monthly assessment of progress grades: 90% • Final: 10%
• The student will be sent an e-mail within a week of the assessment cutoff date. The e-mail will give
the monthly assessment grade along with comments & suggestions on the work done.
• There is not, nor will there be made any provision for extra credit work in this class.
Attendance Policy
Prompt and regular class attendance is considered necessary for satisfactory work. It is the responsibility
of the instructor to keep an accurate and comprehensive record of attendance.
Cisco Junior College recognized that absence from class may occur due to illness, death or illness in the
immediate family, observance of a religious holiday, or participation in a College-sponsored activity.
(Absences due to participation in a college-sponsored activity must be authorized by the Dean of Instruction.)
When absences occur due to the above, the student is allowed to make up work missed; the instructor
may require the work to be made up within two weeks.
• If the instructor deems the student failing due to excessive absences and/or failure to make up work due
to absences, the student WILL be dropped from class after 9 absences in this course.
The student will receive a grade of “W” for the course if withdrawn before the “last day to drop with a “W” & “F”
if withdrawn after the first day to drop with a W.”
Three tardies may constitute an absence. Absences immediately before or after a holiday may be counted as
double absences.
Major Units of Study
• Structure of the internet, web site design, web site implementation, & web site maintenance.
Academic Integrity:
It is the intent of Cisco Junior College to foster a spirit of complete honesty & a high standard of integrity.
The attempt of students to present as their own any work they have not honestly performed is regarded by
the faculty & administration as a serious offense & renders the offender liable to serious consequences,
possibly suspension. All student conduct will support academic honesty. Any student who is cheating on an
exam or uses thoughts or words or works of others without proper citation will receive an F or zero for that
work & may fail the course. The instructional goal is that each student completes his or her own work in
order to master the skills needed to compete in the job market.
Student Conduct
Students are expected to take responsibility in helping to maintain a classroom environment that is
conductive to learning.In order to assure that all students have the opportunity to gain from the time spent
in class, students are prohibited from making offensive remarks, reading material not related to the class,
sleeping, having cell phone conversations, beepers (not on vibrate) or engaging in any kind of distracting
behavior. Inappropriate behavior in the classroom shall result, at a minimum, in a request to leave class.
A more detailed list of inappropriate behaviors is found in the current student hand book.
Students with Special Needs
Students who qualify for specific accommodations under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
should notify their instructor the first week of class. It is the student's responsibility to provide the necessary
documentation to the Special Populations Coordinator.
Changes to the Syllabus
The above procedures are subject to change if deemed appropriate by the instructor.