Higher Certificate in Graphic Web Design

The STADIO Higher Certificate in Graphic Web Design will equip students with web design skills and techniques essential to develop interactive websites and animation. This programme includes graphic design, because the output will be consumed through a visual medium.

It goes further than the purely visual. It stretches to incorporate every aspect of a web experience. The programme includes responsive website design, logo design, user interface design, HTML mark-up, design for ease-of-use (usability), selecting content imagery; frame by frame animation; just to name a few.

FURTHER STUDY OPPORTUNITIES:

After successful completion of the Higher Certificate in Graphic Web Design (NQF 5), the student may articulate to the Bachelor of Information Technology in Web Design and Development (NQF 7).

What is Contact Learning?

THE ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR THE HIGHER CERTIFICATE IN GRAPHIC WEB DESIGN ARE:

• a Senior Certificate (SC); OR

• a National Senior Certificate (NSC), with a minimum of 40% in three modules including a Home Language, and a minimum of 30% in three other modules; OR

• a National Senior Certificate – Vocational Level 4 (NC(V)),

with

• a minimum of 40% in English Home Language or a minimum of 30% English First Additional Language.

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1. Demonstrate the knowledge of the main areas of web design, including the key terms, concepts, facts, principles, rules and theories of this discipline in different contexts, areas of specialisation that link between different areas of practice.

2. Demonstrate an understanding of different schools of thought, knowledge production processes, practices and forms of expression within the field of web design.

3. Demonstrate an understanding of the ethical implications of decisions and actions within web design context, based on an awareness of the complexity of ethical dilemmas encountered.

4. Ability to evaluate, select and apply appropriate methods, procedures and techniques within the field of web design.

5. Ability to identify, analyse and solve problems in different contexts based on evidence and procedures appropriate to web design.

6. Ability to select information from different sources appropriate to specific web design tasks, and apply well-developed processes of analysis, synthesis and evaluation to that information.

7. Ability to present and communicate complex information reliably and coherently using appropriate academic and occupational conventions, formats and technologies within web design context.

8. Ability to make decisions and act appropriately in familiar and new web design contexts, demonstrating an understanding of the relationships between systems, and of how actions, ideas or developments in one system impact on other systems.

9. Ability to evaluate performance against given criteria, and accurately identify and address task-specific learning needs pertaining to the web design environment.

10. Ability to work effectively in a team or group, and take responsibility for own decisions and actions that include decisions and actions of others regarding the use of resources for computer technology operations.