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VCD Course DescriptionsA220 Introduction to Typography Project-oriented studio course introducing typographical forms and the role of type in visual design and communication. Learn typographic terminology and techniques for effective use of type. Create design projects in which aesthetic considerations and page structures support content. Introduction to additive color theory, process color, page construction software, and printing processes. Prerequisites: A115, A130 A222 Digital Images Emphasizes formal, aesthetic, and conceptual practices of image making using digital media. Includes experience with a range of processes and software functions. Provides essential foundations for coursework in upper-division design and digital art. Explores new media theory and its application to image construction and expression. Prerequisite: A 115, A 130, A 119 A260 Basic Photography This course approaches photography as a universal language of contemporary visual culture as well as an artistic medium. Introduces digital camera techniques, photographic composition, digital photo editing, image sequences, and digital color printing processes. Addresses key topics in current and historical photographic practices. Prerequisite: A115 A320 Graphic Design: Process & Theory Exploration of visual communication methods and approaches to help students bring together message, meaning, and form. Employ type and layout principles, image-making concepts, and design processes in visual/verbal communications with multiple media outcomes. Prerequisites: A116, A 119, A220, A 222, A260 A321 Graphic Design: Form & Communication Continue work with images, symbols, and their operation in applied print design problems. Consider messages and audience to understand how to position visual communications. Design for multiple page communications using typographic structures, rhythm, and visual flow. Prerequisites: A260, A 320 A322 Graphic Design: Contemporary Issues Exploration of professional design issues, including creating visual and verbal systems for a project with multiple presentation outcomes, executing projects professionally as a team, designing appropriately for audience and client, awareness and presentation of your role in the design process and your contribution to the design solution. Prerequisite: A 321 A323 Interactive Design: Web Structure and Communication Apply design theory and process to web communications and hypermedia art. Design visual layouts, information architecture, interfaces, artwork, and narratives for the internet. Prerequisite: A 220, A 222, A 320 A324 Interactive Design: Applied
Apply design theory and process to digital interactive communications and art. Design A325 Interactive Design: Contemporary Issues Upper division course focuses on contemporary issues and techniques in the design of interactive visual communications and digital art. May be repeated for credit upon instructor’s approval. Prerequisite: A 321, A 324 A326 Time-Based Media: Video Develop techniques for planning and creating time-based digital communications and art. Use design processes and aesthetic awareness in creative digital motion and video projects. Generate and refine concepts. Work with issues of idea development, audience, message, continuity, and narrative. Includes software instruction and experience with technology connected to course goals. Prerequisite: A 222, A 260
A327 Time-Based Media: Animation Develop techniques for planning and creating time-based digital communications and art. Use design processes and aesthetic awareness in creative digital motion and animation projects. Generate and refine concepts. Continue to work with issues of idea development, audience, message, continuity, and narrative. Includes software instruction and experience with technology connected to course goals. Prerequisite: A 326 A328 Time-Based Media: Contemporary Issues Continue to develop and apply skills in the creation of projects reflecting contemporary practices in time-based visual communications and art. Continue to work with issues of idea development, audience, message, continuity, and narrative. Focus on conceptual development, technical proficiencies, and aesthetic awareness. Includes software instruction and experience with technology connected to course goals. May be repeated for credit upon instructor’s approval. Prerequisite: A 327 A406W Art History Special Topics – History of Graphic Design This survey course will examine the History of Graphic Design. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and describe major designers, their work, and specific design movements. Illustration, and other media, will be discussed as they relate to the field of Graphic Design. A420 Print Design: Systems & Techniques Work with professional design issues, such as: creating visual and verbal systems for a project with multiple presentation outcomes, executing projects professionally, preparing projects to go to press, designing appropriately for audience and client, and the designer’s role in these relationships. Prerequisite: A 322 A421 Print Design: Expressive & Structural Design With the increased understanding of professional practices in design, students explore more demanding issues related to typography, image, and audience. Emphasis on investigation and interpretation in the expressive possibilities of typography, focusing on processes, personal responses, and emotive results. Prerequisite: A 420 A422 Print Design: Presentation & Contemporary Issues Students will build awareness of current designers and what it means to be a graphic designer today. Students will analyze, conduct research, and expand upon previously completed work, as well as continue with new design projects. Discussions and projects will explore solutions beyond traditional print and screen applications. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: A 421 A429 Portfolio & Professional Preparation Preparation for professional practice in visual communication design. Career strategies, professional ethics, business practices, and preparation for portfolio presentation. Capstone experience for visual communication design students includes oral presentation of each student’s portfolio. Prerequisite: A 322 or A324 or A 327, upper division standing |
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