Sep 24, 2025  
GRCC Curriculum Database (2025-2026 Academic Year) 
    
GRCC Curriculum Database (2025-2026 Academic Year)
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CIS 148 - HTML Essentials


Description
HTML Essentials (hyper text markup language) is the study of the rules that define the layout of text within a web page. This course covers the hypertext markups defined in HTML and CSS (cascading style sheets). In a hands-on environment, students design web pages using HTML and CSS and a text editor like Notepad. Students publish to a web server and learn how to maintain a web site. Markup languages run on all operating systems, including Apple OS, Windows, UNIX, etc.
Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: None
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corequisite(s): None
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: Yes
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit:
Programs Where This Course is a Requirement:
Computer Programming, A.A.A.S.
General Education Requirement:
None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Create and modify a cascading style sheet.

  2. Create HTML web pages using a text editor.

  3. Write code to implement tables and the associated elements.

  4. Create a web page that includes audio and video.

  5. Write the HTML code needed to add text, color, layout, and multimedia in web sites.

  6. Program a web page using JavaScript and optimize web site for search engines.

  7. Make effective presentation, formatting, and stylistic choices when developing a communication. 

  8. Understand the role of context, audience, and purpose when developing a communication. 


Course Outline:
I. Basics of HTML5, preparing to build a web site with HTML

II. Defining CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

III. Working with hyperlinks, images, lists and tables

IV. Designing pages with HTML and CSS

V.  Working with forms

VI. Working with audio and video

VII. Programming web pages with JavaScript

VIII. Adapting site for mobile devices

IX. Testing and finalizing a web site

X. Final web site project


Approved for Online and Hybrid Delivery?:
Yes
Instructional Strategies:
Lecture: 30-60%

Facilitated Discussion: 0-20%

Group Work: 0-10%

Lab Work: 10-40%
Mandatory Course Components:
1. Twenty to twenty-five web site activities
2. On-line quizzes
3. Final Web site project
Equivalent Courses:
None
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None

Course prepares students to seek the following external certification:
No
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with ARW/IRW Pairing: IRW 98, IRW 99
Mandatory Department Assessment Measures:
None
Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 3
People Soft Course ID Number: 103682
Course CIP Code: 11.9999
Maximum Course Enrollment: 24
High School Articulation Agreements exist?: None
School: School of STEM
Department: Computer Information Systems
Discipline: CIS
Faculty Credential Requirements:
Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), Other (list below), Professionally qualified through work experience in field (Perkins Act or Other) (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details:
The instructor must possess knowledge of the the HTML5 and CSS3 environment, 4000 hours of HTML5 and CSS3 experience, basic knowledge of JavaScript, and, above all, and be able to clearly explain all topics covered in the course so that the student will be able to understand the concepts taught.
Last Revision Date Effective: 2017-04-11 09:09:55
Course Review & Revision Year: 2024-2025



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