WEB 2120 - Audio/Video for the Web

3 sem hrs cr

This course familiarizes students with the technologies associated with bringing photographic (film, video and still) images and audio to the Internet environment and enable them to identify and use the tools which facilitate these media in Web sites. Appropriate media selection, software tools for encoding various media, delivery system attributes and limitations, associated file types, audio and video codecs and software players will be discussed. Students will learn to prepare aural and visual media for the Web by creating and encoding assigned projects. Students will also learn to design for and solve problems with the integration of audio and video media into pre-existing Web sites. Prerequisite: A practical knowledge of how the Internet operates and working knowledge of HTML code, graphic formats, website building, web page design, and an introductory knowledge of a computer graphics program is required. These pre- and co-requisites may be obtained through WEB 1010   and WEB 1020  , or IST 2630.

In rare and unusual circumstances, a course prerequisite can be overridden with the permission of the Curriculum lead for the discipline. 

Transfer (UT) or Non-Transfer Course (UN): UN