The World Wide Web curriculum provides students with the information and skills needed to qualify for entry-level jobs in Web page development, Web page maintenance, and Web management, including the basic skills needed for positions as Webmasters. The program also provides current employees who find themselves assigned Web page responsibilities or who wish to develop Web pages for their businesses with necessary skills and information to carry out these tasks.

The program includes four certificates that are highly related: Web Site Developer (15 credit hours), Web Site Support and Maintenance (27 credit hours), and Advanced Web site Development (41 credit hours). The Web Site Developer certificate is designed especially for people with experience using the web who have added basic, web page development responsibilities. The Web Site Support and Maintenance certificate is best suited for managers or supervisors who need to have some programming ability or knowledge but whose primary responsibility is to manage the site and to keep the information up to date. It concentrates on the more visible aspects of the Web site. The Advanced Web Site Development certificate is more technical. The program demands a working knowledge of scripting and an object-oriented programming language along with Web server programming.

The Web Based Course Developer (16 credit hours) certificate is geared toward those who want to participate in the expanding function of e-learning in the corporate training arena. Courses in this certificate present e-learning theory as well as the web technology needed to create "just-in-time," short training modules to support basic training and updating of skills.

For more information, please contact the program coordinator, John Stryker, (847) 635-1969, Room 2608, or email: jstryker@oakton.edu