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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course will offer a more detailed analysis and study of typographic design. Students will be supported and encouraged as they seek to find their individual voice through personal history, everyday surroundings, or off-handed conceptualism.
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2.00 Credits
This course explores how photography can be used to explore and create visual allegory, messaging, storytelling and advanced imagemaking. Students learn how to-use color photography in the lighting studio, as well as in the outside world; use of both digital and film cameras; and further develop their technical skills. They are encouraged to find fresh formal and informal photographic expression and explore new ways of seeing, telling and image making as it applies to their major.
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2.00 Credits
Practicum is one of the core learning structures in the communication arts curriculum. One-on-one critiques with faculty and guests, lectures, demos, and workshops are all components of each section required of all students, sophomore to senior. Sections are divided by year.
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2.00 Credits
A required course for all majors in Communication Arts, it is divided into three components, traditional portfolio development, web-portfolio design, and career development specific to a major. Students will leave this course prepared for an internship and/or employment. Lectures, demos, studio visits, visiting artists, and critiques, collectively prepare students for working in the field of advertising, illustration, and graphic design.
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2.00 Credits
In weekly meetings students build formal and intellectual muscle in guided and free exercises like language games, free association, creative triggers, lateral thinking, mapping and experimental mayhem to arrive at unique and unexpected results. This elective is open to all majors.
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2.00 Credits
From metal type to digital plates, students experience the traditional disciplines of typography, letterpress, and printing while learning to integrate type and image, structure and content, process and product. Students work in the Lab Press, which boasts a large collection of wood and metal type, and Vandercook printing presses.
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2.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the skills and techniques used in fine letterpress printing, typographic design, and edition bookmaking from lead type to digital plate-making. Course assignments involve the integration of text and image, paper selection, inks and inking, color integration, serial imaging, surface preparation, and press editions. This course may be repeated for credit up to 2 times. Prerequisite: COMD 362 Introduction to Letterpress.
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2.00 Credits
Students participate in a focused investigation, both historical and personal, of the links between visual motif and meaning. Coursework explores visual literacy and the use of traditional and experimental visual methodologies to illustrate and communicate while developing an effective personal style.
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces the skills, craft, materials, process and techniques used in making book structures and boxes. Students learn binding methods involving paper folding, cutting, sewing, gluing and other means of assembling individual sheets, signatures and text blocks with or without covers. Course assignments have the potential to evolve into creative and personal objects that hold visual work and text. This course may be repeated for credit up to two times.
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2.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to publication design, with a focus on children's books. Working from selected texts, students develop a project from concept to completion: adapting a story, constructing a "dummy," creating original images, integrating typography, and designing a book jacket, while exploring the role of the designer/illustrator as a visual storyteller. Prerequisite: Typography I.
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