Stark State College’s web design certificate provides students with foundational skills in website design, programming, and digital technologies needed to enter the growing field of web development. Through hands-on training, students learn core concepts such as web design, user interface development, database integration, and modern web technologies used to create interactive, database-driven websites.
Major code: 5125 Business, Engineering, and Information Technologies Division Computer Science and Information Systems Department
The catalog in force is assigned to students based on the academic year they first applied to the college, and changes only when students change their major or request the change in writing. Refer to Policy No. 3357:15-13-28.
2026-27 Catalog
Effective Summer 2026
Some courses listed within the program may require a prerequisite or co-requisite.
Pre/Co-requisites will be listed within each course hyperlink below.
Refer to Policy No. 3357:15-13-04 and 3357:15-13-05
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Technical | ||
| CPD123 | Structured Query Language | 3 |
| CPD224 | Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration | 3 |
| WDD122 | Web Graphics Design | 3 |
| WDD221 | Web Development with JavaScript | 3 |
| WDD222 | Advanced Cascading Style Sheets | 3 |
| WDD229 | Advanced Web Design | 3 |
| Non-technical | ||
| SSC101 | Student Success Seminar | 1 |
| CPD121 | Data Modeling Database Design | 3 |
| CSE122 | Programming Logic and Problem Solving | 3 |
| MTH118 | Quantitative Reasoning | 3 |
| WDD121 | Internet Design and Development | 3 |
| Total Hours | 31 | |
The classes in this certificate also apply toward the completion of a Web Design and Development Degree (5100).
Full-time Student Advising Notes
Academic Advising
Students should make an appointment to see their advisor before registering for classes each semester. They should have prepared a completed registration form, including courses they wish to take, prior to this meeting.
Course Sequence
The semester-by-semester listing below provides the normal scheduling option for students seeking a one-year certificate.
| First Summer Semester | Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| SSC101 | Student Success Seminar | 1 |
| CPD121 | Data Modeling Database Design | 3 |
| CSE122 | Programming Logic and Problem Solving | 3 |
| WDD121 | Internet Design and Development | 3 |
| Hours | 10 | |
| First Semester | ||
| MTH118 | Quantitative Reasoning | 3 |
| WDD122 | Web Graphics Design | 3 |
| CPD123 | Structured Query Language | 3 |
| Hours | 9 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| CPD224 | Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration | 3 |
| WDD221 | Web Development with JavaScript | 3 |
| WDD222 | Advanced Cascading Style Sheets | 3 |
| WDD229 | Advanced Web Design | 3 |
| Hours | 12 | |
| Total Hours | 31 | |
Program Learning Outcomes
This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:
- Apply advanced level HTML and CSS techniques to design and create web pages.
- Implement JavaScript functions, events, control structures, and form validation within a web page.
- Describe strategies for advanced web site development including utilizing graphic design software, optimizing graphics, addressing accessibility challenges, and creating interactive web sites.
- Demonstrate effective problem-solving and critical thinking skills by analyzing requirements, designing solutions, and implementing software.
- Design and implement relational databases by applying normalization principles, defining relationships among tables, and creating entity-relationship diagrams.
- Demonstrate proficiency using structured query language to define new database objects and manage and manipulate data within a database.
- Create SQL programming constructs such as views, stored procedures, user-defined functions, indexes, and triggers.
- Apply best practices to manage a SQL Server instance including configuring users and permissions, automating jobs, importing/exporting data, performing database backups, and analyzing database performance.