Re: College Corriculums and Hiring (Was Re: Start with HTML or XHTML?)

In a message dated 02-03-13 15:32:17 EST, jami(at)jamisniche.com writes:

<< school this semester part-time. I chose the school that I attend 
 because I *thought* that I would get a good education to move me into a 
 four year college when the ones around here finally catch on. I'm not 
 holding my breathe at this point.
 
 My curriculum at this school seems to be very... generic. I am highly 
 dissappointed at the things that I will not be learning, even though 
 these are becoming the industry standard (PHP, XHTML, XML, etc.). When 
 I asked my Web Design teacher about typography (first night of class), 
 he looked at me with a blank look and said, "Yes, we will get into the 
 font tag a bit and some CSS specifications for it." I then said, "Ok, 
 but I was thinking more along the lines of the LAYOUT of font, not so 
 much specifying the type and size." To which he hesitantly 
 replied, "Well, I don't know much about that... I can try to find some 
 things for you to reference..." and he turned to another student. I had 
 contacted some design firms this time last year and was told that I was 
 good, but not good enough and that I needed to focus on my typography, 
 more specifically, how I placed text on a site.
 
 At this school, there is no HTML 1 or 2 class, no specifics to go into 
 (like XHTML and XML). I find that I am at least 4 steps ahead of 
 everyone in my class, yet I am in the last class for the school's 
 equivalent to a HTML class. >>
What? your school has a web design class??? WOW heh. I go to Univ. Central 
Florida and they dont have classes for web design. Some of the graphic arts 
classes include a little web design <the upper level ones which you can get 
to without taking several lower ones. They are actually teaching one class 
this summer on web design <only one since iv been here> it however covers 
about 8 differnt things <Javascript, HTML, XML, PHP, ASP, etc> so i dont see 
anyone learning anything enough to actually do anything with it. And iv 
already maxed my elective credits..My community college taught a class every 
once in a while but only on Sat. and Sun. morning really early..

I mean even my high schools had web design 1, 2, and 3 <front page only, no 
html>.. it was however a class of idiots taught by a complete idiot who would 
have a student teach the class because he knew nothing.

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