PCS-123 GRAPHIC DESIGN CONCEPTS

Using concepts of graphic design, students will,design a visual brand campaign to promote a cause,,event, or organization, using modes of,communication including print, UxD, and motion,graphics. Students will learn basic digital design,techniques to produce solutions that reach their,goals and their audience. Adobe Creative Suite,experience is recommended but not required.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

PCS-154 INTRO TO PRODUCT DESIGN B

This course introduces students to the,fundamentals of the four phases of the design,process. Students are exposed to problem solving,based on user needs, along with material,considerations and manufacturing processes.,Students should demonstrate a basic understanding,of problem-solving methodology and its application,to user needs. ,,This is the second half of Intro to Product Design,DPR 125

Credits: 1.5

Prerequisites:

PCS-200 WESTERN ART HISTORY/VISUAL CULTURE

This course is a survey of Western Art and,visual culture from the late Middle Ages to the,twentieth-century. Other than to present an,outline history of Western art, this course seeks,to introduce students cumulatively to the,critical concepts and vocabulary in the study of,art history, visual culture, art appreciation and,historiography of art, that is, the study of the,writing about art and its history. The course,will seek to introduce students to historically,relevant accounts of the philosophical,,religious, poetic and technological contexts of,art as well as to introduce new forms of,historical thinking on the relevance of the,recognition of social, political and economic,,(race, class and gender)in the understanding of,both the making of art and its audience.

Credits: 3

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