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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Fall An examination of the creative and practical applications of Graphic User Interfaces and page design as they pertain to the Web. Basic HTML code and Web design applications lead to the development of Web pages. Emphasis is on designing navigational schematics, linking strategies, and getting the most out of typographics and image mapping. Offered as NME 3700 for new media majors. Prerequisite: VDE/NME 2450; recommended: VDE/NME 3180
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Spring The Web is part of a larger environment that constantly evolves in relation to social and technological developments. This course investigates the design of online experiences through lectures, discussions, workshops, and projects. Students explore relationships among design, technology, and user experience in the context of contemporary Internet cultures and develop skills in designing information architectures, interface behaviors, navigation systems, and typographic and image strategies for the Web. Recommended for graphic design majors. Prerequisite: VDE 3180 or equivalent
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Spring This seminar affords the graduating graphic design student the ability to develop his or her portfolio, create professionally oriented work, and design a personalized identity package, including letterhead and résumé. In addition tofield trips to design studios, group discussions revolve around current issues in the design field, professional options within a diverse set of opportunities, the business of design, and freelancing. Required for graphic design majors. Prerequisite: VDE 4100 and senior standing
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Fall Brings senior graphic design students together in a collaborative design studio, simulating a “real world”professional studio situation. Students work directly with oncampus and nonprofit off-campus clients. Under the supervision of the faculty member, the students assume complete responsibility for a concept, development of design solutions, production, printing, scheduling, maintaining client relationships, billing, etc. Required for graphic design majors. Prerequisite: VDE 3200 and 3510
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2.00 Credits
2 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) Based on the model of VDE 4100, this special upper-level course provides advanced students in graphic design and new media with professional experience working as a team on a real job for a real client. Offered as NME 4170 for new media majors. Prerequisite: Either VDE 3090, VDE/NME 3700, or VDE 3800, and permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Fall Students are encouraged to reconsider what a book is and expand the boundaries of the traditional codex book through workshops in experimental formats, integration of word and image, form and content, sequencing, and physical structure. This may include a variety of projects and the study of video and film structure, historical and contemporary artists’ books, and innovative trade books.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) The ideas and skills inherent in visual arts and literature are combined toward an integrated expression in this interdisciplinary course. Students confront issues of form, word and image relationships, sequence, storytelling, semiotics, and visual/experimental literature. Skills are developed through a sequence of exercises, including: Dada poetry and other writing (continuous, automatic, multiple points of view); titling objects; building a narrative; story development; typographic settings of original text; writing and designing for the visual book, performance, and other time-based media. Students choose the medium for their final projects; collaborations are encouraged. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, and an interest in the marriage of visual arts and writing
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4.00 Credits
and 1020 4 credits ( per semester). I: Fall; II: Spring Drawing is studied as a tool to help enhance powers of observation and imagination. Fundamental elements of visual representation, including mass, shape, line, composition, value, and texture, are developed through drawing studies and projects. Students are encouraged to respond perceptually and conceptually to visual works presented in the studios, learning how to organize their insights both rationally and intuitively. VDR 1010 is required for all visual arts majors.
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4.00 Credits
and 1100 4 credits ( per semester). IA: Fall; IB: Spring This twosemester seminar approaches drawing as a language and, therefore, as a tool. Class exercises are designed to strengthen powers of observation and imagination, and to enhance eyehand coordination. Because of its emphasis on depth rather than breadth of experience, credit is awarded only after successful completion of VDR 1100.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits. Every semester A basic introduction to drawing and painting for students from other disciplines. Focus is placed on becoming familiar with the elements of 2-D design and on strengthening observational skills. A variety of drawing techniques and materials are used to explore both representational and nonrepresentational image making.
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