Web Development HND (SCQF level 8) City of Glasgow College

On this two year course, you'll gain skills to start or advance a career as a web designer/developer. You'll learn to build both static and dynamic websites that deliver content in a variety of formats for computers, smartphones and tablets.

Beginning with the fundamentals of website development, you'll build on a foundation of client-side technologies (HTML5, CSS and web optimisation) through to more advanced study on JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks, PHP/MySQLi and Apache Server. 

Year 2 explores these subjects in more detail and introduces development technologies such as C#,  API integration, web stacks and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular for application development. You'll learn how to create databases and how to integrate database content to web pages.

The course introduces both client and server side technologies with opportunities to prepare and develop web interfaces and multimedia-rich content utilising a range of Adobe products. The faculty has access to the Adobe suite which can be utilised to produce creative and engaging media content for inclusion within your websites.

This course is designed to prepare you for progression to University or employment as a web developer/ designer at junior level.

The course is placed on the Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework at Level 8. For more information on the framework visit: www.scqf.org.uk/the-framework/.

Entry requirements for this course

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