Collaboration to Create an IT Bachelor's Degree: Bachelor of Applied Science in Web Design and Development

Abstract

The creation of this bachelor's degree was a series of innovations for us: a new model for degree creation. This is a bachelor's degree created by a community college. It is a degree program that does not exist anywhere else in the state, and it was built on collaboration between the college and local industry, and by collaboration between faculty and staff in different departments in the college. Usually, students are trained in front-end (clientside) skills or back-end (server-side) skills. When determining the need for the degree, the companies contacted indicated that they wanted students trained in both front-end and back-end skills or "full-stack" skills. At the college, web design (front-end) is housed in the School of Arts and Sciences, and web development (back-end) in the School of Business and Applied Technologies. The faculty in these disciplines collaborated with each other, industry partners, and various departments across the college to create a new applied bachelor's degree, a Bachelor of Applied Science in Web Design and Development. The applied nature of the degree was critical to student success and to filling workforce development needs. We wanted students to be trained in current technologies so they would be immediately employable upon graduation. The curriculum requires students to create real-world projects and work with the industry partners as they complete the degree program. This paper outlines our collaborative two-year journey in creating the degree, getting it approved and accredited, and making it available to students.

Peningkatan Kompetensi Front End Web Programming: Pelatihan Bahasa Pemrograman HTML dan CSS bagi Mahasiswa

“…Hal ini menggarisbawahi pentingnya kompetensi front-end dalam menciptakan antarmuka pengguna yang responsif dan menarik, sehingga pemahaman yang mendalam mengenai HTML dan CSS menjadi penting untuk menjawab tantangan tersebut (Mustaqim, 2019) Di ranah pendidikan tinggi, desain dan implementasi sistem kurikulum khusus untuk pengembangan front-end web di perguruan tinggi vokasi telah diakui sebagai hal yang penting untuk memenuhi tuntutan industri yang terus meningkat, yang menekankan perlunya program pendidikan yang selaras dengan kebutuhan industri dan kemajuan teknologi (("Research and Application of Web Front-End Development Micro-Speciality Curriculum System in Higher Vocational Colleges," 2021). Selain itu, kolaborasi untuk menciptakan gelar sarjana TI telah menyoroti pentingnya melatih mahasiswa dalam keterampilan front-end dan back-end, menggarisbawahi perlunya pendidikan yang komprehensif dalam pengembangan web (Dawson & Roux, 2020). Berdasarkan pernyataan di atas menunjukkan pentingnya meningkatkan keterampilan pemrograman front-end mahasiswa untuk pembuatan situs web front-end.…”