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| 3 Fall | COAR
2620 credits 3 Corporate Identity |
This course examines logos and trademarks, their necessity and value, and their origins and history. Learners learn how to prepare business identities with extensive applications. Hands-on logo development, the stages of logo development, preparation for professional presentation, client contact, final logo development and preparation for the printer will be the course focus. |    |
| 3 Fall |
COAR
2612 credits 3 Illustration Techniques |
Various mediums are demonstrated and explored through weekly assignments. The learner learns how to find a reference, develop a morgue file, and design and render the finished illustration. An illustrator’s working processes, prices, portfolio, and market are discussed |     |
| 3 Fall | COAR
2613 credits 3 Adobe Illustrator |
The learner will establish a working familiarity with Illustrator. Through the execution of the units in this course, the learner will develop technical drawing skills and a design sensibility. This course will focus on mastering computer-drawing capabilities. Prerequisite: Completion of a first-year Communication Art and Design program. |    |
| 3Fall | COAR
2616 credits 3 Advertising Design l |
This computer intensive course explores the contemporary advertising market. The learner will learn more about print advertising, the strategies used to “sell” the consumer and the technical and creative aspects of putting together interesting advertising materials in this challenging and dynamic field. By completing a series of advertising projects on the computer, the learner will learn to solve design problems using a step-by-step creative process. |     |
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PSYC
1410 credits 3 Psychology |
This course is a basic introduction to psychology, including its history, research methods, biological factors in behavior, sensation and perception, motivation and emotion, learning, intelligence, personality theories, human development, social behavior, and abnormal psychology. This course will expose students to the basics of these topics. ***This course meets Minnesota Transfer Curriculum goal area 5. | |
| 3 Fall | ENGL
1410 credits 3 Composition l |
This course deals with the fundamentals of expository writing based on reading or personal experience. It stresses organization, the process of writing, English grammar, mechanics, and style. Emphasis is on the strategies of exposition as well as effective description and narration. The learner will learn the process method of writing that can be utilized in business and creative writing. ***Meets Minnesota Transfer Curriculum Goal Area 1 | |
| 4 Spr | COAR
2620 credits 3 Production Techniques & Applications |
This program offers students the opportunity to learn the design and technical skills to create visual solutions for magazines, books, advertisements, corporate logos, illustrations, web sites, multi-media, and many other applications. The Communication Art and Design program provides a balance in creative thinking, traditional hand skills, and Macintosh computer skills. |  |
| 4 Spr | COAR
2631 credits 3 Web Site Design |
This
course emphasizes graphic design for the net. Learners create web sites
that have a strong visual presence as well as incorporating efficient file
size strategies to make sites fast loading and user friendly in navigation.
They will load sites to a remote off campus server to test site. A beginning
learner portfolio will also be created. |
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| 4 Spr | COAR
2621 credits 3 Display/ Package Design |
The learner will learn techniques to design and build a point of purchase display and its supporting packaging. The course focuses on the process of solving the display design problems within practical boundaries. |     |
| 4 Spr | COAR
2628 credits 3 Mixed Media l |
This course explores the construction of functional 3-dimensional forms, their conceptual development and design as well as the textural and technical aspects. Through a series of 3-dimensional projects, the learner will develop an ability to construct his/her own creative 3-D artwork. Current projects focus specifically on building a custom made unique portfolio for professional presentation. |    |
| 4 Spr | COAR
2611 credits 3 Portfolio Production l |
With the instructor’s help, the learners evaluate and decide what samples of their work should be used in their portfolio. The course focus is to help the learners design portfolios that represent them well and approaches a specific market in commercial art. All computer software skills, as well as new skills, will be brought to bear in creating higher-level projects. The ins and outs of how the Macintosh works will be discussed and learners will learn the more technical aspects of the hardware and systems. |  |
| 4 Spr | COAR
2609 credits 1 Commercial Art as a Business |
The learners learn about the business structures used in ad agencies, publishers, and free-lance operations. The course focuses on basic business structure principles used in the commercial art business for the employee and self-employed. |   |
| 4 Spr | COMM
1440 credits 2 Communicating for Results |
This course deals with the communication skills and documents essential to successful employment application. Additionally, the elements of business communication will be utilized in a series of written and oral presentations. | |
| 4 Spr | HUMA
1470 credits 3 Art Appreciation |
This course is an introduction to the artistic process and the rich variety of individual artistic visions that result from the process. The course focus will be to explore, examine and come to appreciate the wide range of art--from the realistic to the abstract, from painting to film making. Individual artists who have developed techniques of self-expression in a wide range of media over the centuries will be studied. Several field trips to artist’s studios, galleries, and museums are required. ***This course meets Minnesota Transfer Curriculum goal area 6. | |
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