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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed for computer-based photo manipulation, including the basics of drawing and painting. Students learn Photoshop software and desktop skills to produce and edit bitmap images. The course also provides instructions in the application of classroom knowledge to solving problems in desktop publishing, including an overview of preparing Photoshop projects for pre-press productions. Note: (was MDAR 350)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces the field of graphic design to students who have little or no design knowledge. Learning through manual techniques, students develop proficiency in the principles of design, the technical vocabulary, and professional application. Topics include color theory, typography, advertising techniques, and poster and logo design. To complete the class, students are introduced to QuarkXPress software to coordinate applications of graphic design to desktop publishing. (This course is a prerequisite to MDAR 380.) Note: (was MDAR 280)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to the art and technical demands of contemporary screenwriting. Students explore the concepts of character, story, and dramatic structure of the screenplay while studying transformation of an idea into a finished script. Students are acquainted with strict standards of the screenwriting format and discuss the realities of professional screenwriting. Students will begin writing a full-length film script to demonstrate their skills in these areas. (This course is a prerequisite to MDAR 420.) Note: (was MDAR 320)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course goes beyond critical and theoretical perspectives of film to explore the practical aesthetics of film from the viewpoint of filmmakers. Students learn to recognize the various technical, stylistic, and narrative options available to filmmakers in any given work, and to evaluate the aesthetic merit of the choices made by the artists. Course objectives include promoting insightful cinematic experiences and building skills by which students can articulate those insights. The course also explores various career options in the film industry
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students trace the roles of television in the American lifestyle: surveillance, authority, communicator, entertainer. The class analyzes the art and craft of television – from how it works, to content and programming trends, as well as its business operation. Note: (was MDAR 335)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the communication between an individual or organization and the public to promote public acceptance and approval. Students explore traditional and emerging components of the public relations process through mass media, as well as the needs of different types of businesses, such as corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government offices. Note: (was MDAR 301)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course teaches students how to become discerning users of the Internet and create efficient, useful, and usable Web pages. Students develop Internet and online searching and researching competencies in addition to Web design and information management skills. Note: (was MDAR 245)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Pre-requisite: MDAR 220. This course provides students with the knowledge and the skills needed to expand upon skills learned in Intro to Computer Illustration. Students will create sequential images and animations based upon a story or theme for both print and the web. Students will continue to develop skills through concept-based assignments. Students will get hands on experience with a variety software packages while learning terminology as well as an overview of the history of illustrative animation to the present. Note: (was MDAR 357)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Pre-requisite: MDAR 230. This course will build upon the fundamental imaging skills learned in MDAR-350. In this class the student will learn advanced Photoshop concepts of creating masks, automating batch processes, working with spot colors and alpha channels and using clipping paths. How to create and effectively use adjustment layers, and layer effects will be covered, as well as a presentation of Photoshop’s type features. Pen tool skills will be refined so that precise manipulations of an image are possible. How to compose composite images and using Photoshop to create illustrations will be presented. There will be an in depth look at the construction of bit map images along with Photoshop’s compression and exchange formats. Effectively preparing images for prepress and web publication, and exporting and importing images between Photoshop and other programs will be examined. Note: (was MDAR 351)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Pre-requisite: MDAR 280 and 330 and 235. This course continues the skills developed in MDAR 280 in design, grid systems, advertising techniques, and electronic publication by providing students with in-depth proficiency in design principles and vocabulary. With QuarkXPress and Photoshop software, students learn advanced techniques in traditional graphic design and desktop publishing. Note: (was MDAR 380)
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