Course Description and Objectives: This project-based class is designed to give students the experience of solving real world problems in web production and to add to the advanced student's web design portfolio with a real world project. Students willl work independently and in teams with a client who has specific design needs. Using the cycle of design, implementation, and user testing and revision, students will learn how to design a successful web site. At the end of this class students will: 

• Understand the cycle of design, user testing, revision. 
• Be able to use flow-charting and storyboarding techniques as part of the design process 
• Be able to translate flow-charts and storyboards into functioning web sites
• Be able to work in teams on a real word design project. 
• Be able to upload and troubleshoot web sites on the server 
• Be able to add external resources to their web sitesincluding: graphics, sound, QuickTime movies, or other resources 
• Be able to choose an appropriate web authoring tool or technique to solve a specific design problem

Grades will be awarded using the standard grading scale: 
90-100% A 
80-89% B 
70-79% C 
60-69% D 
below 60% F 

Homework: Homework assignments will be collected at the beginning of class (when attendance is taken). Any homework not turned in at this time will be marked late. Points will be deducted from late homework. There are several labs at Hunter that are available for students to use outside of class to complete homework assignments.

Since the nature of this class demands that assignments vary between students, students will be responsible for the specific requirements of their assigned part of the project and will be expected to complete necessary content gathering and formatting and design. Unfinished or non-functional final projects will NOT be accepted. ALL work will be expected to be formatted for and shown on the internet and available in the proper location TBA.
The lab schedule will be made available on the door of the lab and many applications can be accessed in the general Hunter College ICIT labs. 

• At least one reference guide to web authoring (see list below for sugggestions)
• Videotapes, Flash Disks and CDRs as needed
• A notebook to take notes in and reference 
• handouts TBA
• Time outside of class to work! 

• Creative HTML Design 2 Lynda Weinman Peach Pit Press, 2001
• Dreamweaver Hands-on Training Lynda Weinman Peach Pit Press, 2001
• Macromedia Flash MX Actionscript for Fun and Games Gary Rosenzweig,Que Publishing, 2003
• Web Design in a Nutshell O'Reilly, 2001
• Advanced Flash 5 Actionscript In Action Dan Livingston, Prentice Hall, 2001
• Flash 5 Magic with Actionscript by J. Scott Hamlin, 2001
• Foundation Actionscript Sham Bhangal, Friends of Ed, 2000
• Foundation Flash 5 Sham Bhangal, Friends of Ed, 2000
• Actionscript: The Definitive Guide Colin Moock, O'Reilly, 2001

• Cybernetics or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Wiener, Norbert.  Cambridge: MIT Press,1948
• The Invisible Computer Donald Norman
• Life on the Screen Sherry Turkle Touchstone Books, 1997 
• Being Digital Nicholas Negreponte New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
• Envisioning Cyberspace Peter Anders, McGraw-Hill, 1999 
• Computers as Theater Brenda Laurel, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1993 
• Hyper/Text/Theory. Landow, George P (ed.)  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
• The Cyborg Handbook Chris Hables Gray (ed.) London: Routledge, 1996.
• Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium_FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse, Feminism and Technoscience. Haraway Donna J.,  Routledge London, 1997.
• Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Haraway, Donna J.  London: Free Association Books, 1991
• Digital Delirium. Kroker, Arthur and Kroker, Marilouise, (eds.).  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997
• The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Stone, Allucquere Rosanne.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996
• Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture Sadie Plant New York: Doubleday, 1997
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Levy, Steven.  New York: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1984
• The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer. Hiltz, Starr Roxanne and Murray Turoff.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993
• The Archeology of a Computer Screen Lev Manovich. published in Kunstforum International, Germany 1995
• Envisioning Information Edward Tufte Graphics Press 1990
• Understanding Media. McLuhan,Marshall .  Cambridge:The MIT Press, 1994
• The New World Border : Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the End of the Century Guillermo Gomez-Pena
• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software Steven Johnson
• Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age Duncan Watts
• Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution Howard Rheingold
• The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age (Random House, 2001) by Pekka Himanen with Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells

Web Resources:

Web Resources: find this page:http://www.andreapolli.com follow the 'teaching ' links on the left

Course Outline  This schedule is subject to change!! Please feel that you have a say in the tempo and the extent to which material is covered.