Webisa

Web Institute of Souther Africa

www.webisa.za.org
webelse@webisa.za.org
Project : Web Education Literacy Series (WebElese)

Course Structure and Content

The BSc (Hons) program in Web Science will consist of 40 modules over a period of 4 years full time
consisting of 2 semesters a year.

Aim
The BSc (Hons) Web Engineering is designed to produce graduates that understand the World Wide
Web. The course has great emphasis on.
First year
1st year 1st semester 1st year 2nd semester
1. History of the Internet and the web 1. Buyer behavior
2. Web Programming languages and concepts 2. Web Information Systems
3. Web Programming 1 (HTML/CSS) 3. Elearning
4. Principles of Web Engineering 4. Gaming
5. Sociology of the Internet 5. Fundamentals of Web Marketing
6. Consumer behavior on the web 6. Project

Second year
2nd year 1st semester 2nd year 2nd semester
1. Digital Rights Management 1. Open Source development
2. Ecommerce 2. Content filtering
3. Web Programming 2 (XML/XSLT) 3. Communication on the Internet
4. Information Architecture 4. Web Security
5. Web Economics 5. Privacy on the web
6. Data Mining 6. Web and democracy

Third year
3rd year 1st semester 3rd year 2nd semester
1. Web modeling 1. Usability Engineering
2. Research on the web 2. Web publishing
3. Intelligent Systems 3. Internet broadcasting
4. Web Law and ethics 4. Fundamentals of Web Entrepreneurship
5. Fundamentals of Web Marketing 5. Project

Fourth Year
4th year 1st semester 4th year 2nd semester
1. Web Law 1. Languages and culture on the web
2. Web journalism 2. Internet governance and regulation
3. Digital divide 3. Web archiving
4. Web activism 4. Internet Strategy development
5. Semantic web 5. Virtual Communities