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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Students are introduced to site-specific threedimensional design systems, signage and applications for buildings, events, exhibits, and other spatial environments. Projects expand the students' understanding of human factors, architectural scale, way-finding, materials, and methods for creating effective dimensional design. Prerequisite: Typography I.
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2.00 Credits
Students are introduced to the concepts, techniques, and creative methodologies for applying a clear visual form to abstract concepts and ideas. An overview of historical and contemporary examples of information architecture informs assignments that employ visual thinking, resulting in "design for understanding." Prerequisite: Typography I/II
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2.00 Credits
One of the core learning structures in the curriculum, in which 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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3.00 Credits
Students explore conceptual, theoretical, and experimental communications problems based on individual proposals, offering them the opportunity to integrate personal vision with professional goals. Meeting in cross-disciplinary teams facilitated by faculty advisors, students define the scope and objectives of their inquiry and outline their research and production methodologies. The class culminates in a visual project accompanied by a written narrative.
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2.00 Credits
Students participate in a systematic study of the creation and projection of identity: corporate, national, and personal. Discussion and assignments address problem solving, information gathering, organization, strategy and systems development, and applications standards, with a focus on branding, color, logotypes and symbols, typography, project presentation, and media from print to the web. This course may be repeated for credit 2 times, with new subject matter. Prerequisite: Typography I/II.
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2.00 Credits
Visiting Faculty are invited to Otis to work with students on project specific assignments. No two semesters are alike. Lectures, workshops, demos, and critiques give students exposure to practitioners who join the institution for brief and intense periods of time.
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2.00 Credits
In this class students explore methodologies that foreground concerns such as inspiration, motivation, intention, impression, interpretation, decision, consequence, analogy, chance, coincidence, predictability, message, ambiguity, literacy, manipulation, privacy, intimacy, memory, subjectivity and media in the process of image making. Students learn to integrate and discern levels of communication in and through their own and other students' processes.
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2.00 Credits
This course is a focused introduction to the principles of story telling, narrative structures, sequence, rhythm, audience, and point-of-view. Students learn tools and techniques of ideational sketching, thumbnails, and storyboards as means of communicating and developing visual ideas.
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2.00 Credits
Students are introduced to the key concepts, tools and techniques, aesthetics, and underlying processes used to create rich interactive communication experiences with particular online applications. Class sessions and individual and collaborative assignments involve interface, navigational structures, metaphor, screen composition, sound, space, rhythm, and the relationship between functionality, content, and form.
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2.00 Credits
Students investigate further applications for experience communication related to individual and class projects that take on expressions appropriate to the purpose of interactivity. The intention of interactive design varies in the areas of entertainment, education and information systems for business presentations, advertising and personal expression.
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