18 courses with the subject GD, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
GD 200Graphic Design I3
Students develop technical skills and become familiar with basic tools and materials of the graphic designer. Through short projects, emphasis is placed on visual aesthetics, composition, and craft. Fulfills: Graphic Design I Requirement (Graphic Design students) or Graphic Design I Requirement Elective (GTP and Illustration students) or Studio Elective
Continuing focus on form, communication and problem solving, with emphasis on typography and the use of visual/graphic elements, including icons/symbols, diagrams, drawings and photographs. Throughout the core Graphic Design 1-2-3 sequence, exercises grow in complexity and scale, accompanied by higher expectations about typographic discipline, craft, and inventiveness. Fulfills: Graphic Design II Requirement (Graphic Design students) or Studio Elective
Graphic Design I and Typography I or Permission of Instructor
GD 212Typography I3
An intensive introduction to the fundamentals of the manipulation and management of type, from individual letterforms to large bodies of textual information, for digital and paper platforms. Attention to formal, technological, rhetorical, and historical issues. While the focus is on page layout and vector graphics programs, the school's letterpress facilities may also be employed. Fulfills: Typography I Requirement (Graphic Design students) or Typography I Requirement Elective (GTP and Illustration students) or Studio Elective
An introduction to the borrowing, generation, editing and usage of visuals in design contexts. Emphasis on imaging tools, and on critical and theoretical consideration of the use and ubiquity of images in the world. Fulfills: Using Images Requirement (Graphic Design students) or Studio Elective
A studio/seminar investigation of the nature and practice of design as a story-telling and framing activity. Within this context, attention is devoted to episodes of design history, to the ways that history has been told, and to design practice as a rhetorical activity. Participation involves research and development and presentation of ideas in a seminar setting in papers, and in design exercises. Fulfills: Design Stories Requirement (Graphic Design students) or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or Studio Elective
Typography I and Using Images or Permission of Instructor
GD 217Advertising3
An overview of the key aspects of the art and industry of advertising, including art direction, strategy, research, copywriting and account management. The emphasis is on idea generation and development in studio projects. Lectures address the broad and ever-changing landscape of advertising. Readings include classic and contemporary sources, which seek to place advertising in the larger cultural, social and economic settings that it both drives and is driven by. Fulfills: Graphic Design Elective (Graphic Design students) or Studio Elective Page 30 of 91
This course treats the poster format as historical source and contemporary medium of expression and investigation. Class format includes lectures and reading, fieldtrips and studio exercises on digital and analog tools. Analog tools will include letterpress, and raise issues including the relationship of the poster to the typographic broadside; and screenprinting, which will enable printing in multiple colors and large scale. Lectures and studio exercises alike are dedicated to exploring the uses and evolving aesthetics and technologies associated with the poster. Fulfills: Graphic Design Elective (Graphic Design students) or Studio Elective
Students explore interactive screen-based media as a design tool and environment. Focus here is on digital creations that embody their own application software, suiting them not only for the web, but for use in CDs and other independent media. Students gain experience with graphics, video, sound, 3D objects, and markup and scripting languages as they consider issues of usability, transitions, duration and motion to create and control meaning. Emphasis on flowcharts and project management. Fulfills: Graphic Design Requirement Elective (Graphic Design students) or Studio Elective
Web Authoring 1 is an introductory course to the history of the web, web standards, and authoring hand-coded markup and style for the web ahead. Students learn to read, write, and speak two (2) fundamental web languages, HTML and CSS, to markup and style content from poetry to prose, icons to favicons, charts to infographics and more. Web Authoring 1 focuses on the semantics (isness and aboutness) of content (text and image) and structure (design and form), and the presentation (look and feel) of type, color, and layout for the web. Fulfills: Graphic Design Requirement Elective (Graphic Design students) or Studio Elective
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Graphic Design. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation. Fulfills: Graphic Design Elective (Graphic Design students) or 200-Level Studio Elective
Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
GD 300Graphic Design III3
In this study of visual communications, students work on concept development and apply the principles of design to several realistic projects that combine type and image. Projects include the design of an identity program and a study of grids and formats through the design of a publication. Fulfills: Graphic Design III Requirement (Graphic Design students) or 300-Level Studio Elective
Attention to structuring information on and across sequences of pages; formal and expressive issues; create documents that are for print and screen. Fulfills: Typography II Requirement (Graphic Design students) or 300-Level Studio Elective Page 31 of 91
Students build and expand upon the skills and concepts from Web Authoring I to develop web pages rich in typography and imagery, designed to be responsive for “one web” — for all browsers and devices — handheld (mobile), lap (tablet, laptop) and desktop. This intermediate course explores the art and craft of setting responsive web typography (scale and rhythm), using responsive images (sizes and resolutions), and developing responsive grids (fluid and fixed) for one web. Students gain a greater working knowledge of HTML and CSS, as well as an introduction to scripting languages (JS and jQuery) for detecting and adding feature support. Fulfills: Graphic Design 300-Level Elective (Graphic Design students) or 300-Level Studio Elective
Web Authoring I: Markup & Style or Permission of Instructor
GD 358Design Portfolio and Professional Practice3
Following an assessment of their portfolio of work from other classes, students develop and/or enhance existing work and also initiate and complete new work, as determined in consultation with instructor. The objective is a focused portfolio of work in print and digital media, at a consistent level of quality, demonstrating competence, concept and a high level of craft. Prepress, presentation and other issues are addressed within the class or in workshops in which attendance is mandatory. Fulfills: Graphic Design 300-Level Elective (Graphic Design students) or 300-Level Studio Elective
Graphic Design III and Typography II. A substantial body of previously completed work is required.
GD 370Design Factory3
This course focuses on developing entrepreneurial ideas (publications, products, services) for the marketplace, and on design briefs submitted by business and non-profit clients. Under the guidance of the instructor, students incubate their own ideas, or work with clients to identify needs, develop solutions and see these through to completion. The course provides a dynamic space for the intersection of theoretical learning and practical application. Skillsets may include but are not limited to those developed in conventional graphic design courses. Students emerge with accomplished and exciting work in their portfolios. Students will have the opportunity to work with the Studio for Experiential Learning (StudioXL) and the diverse experiences this program provides. Fulfills: Graphic Design 300-Level Elective (Graphic Design students) or 300-Level Studio Elective
Advanced work in the student's major field of study, supervised by a designated faculty member. Fulfills: To be determined by faculty approval Page 32 of 91
(6 Credits, 1st semester, Required; 2nd semester, Optional) Students work on self-defined, typically communication-oriented, projects over the course of one and in rare cases two semesters. They work with the instructor to clarify objectives, develop or assemble content, and design and produce a body of work that demonstrates facility with appropriate tools and techniques, high craft values, awareness of relevant contexts, and evidence of aesthetic judgment. Students meet as a group to discuss their work with peers, the course instructor and professional guests. The studio emphasis of the course is underpinned by one-on-one and group crits and discussion; panel review sessions involving other design instructors and guest critics; and a public exhibition of completed work. It may be complemented by assigned readings, seminar presentations and discussions, and writing exercises. The discussion component emphasizes contemporary design and communication practice in the print and digital realms, and in various professional and public contexts. Course may be repeated once for credit. Graphic Design concentrators will ordinarily have completed most if not all of their other studio requirements prior to taking Design Seminar. They have the option of taking two studio courses in lieu of a second semester of Seminar. Concentrators in Book Arts and other areas for which Design Seminar is a capstone option are expected to declare their intention to enter Design Seminar at the time they declare their concentration. Book Arts concentrators will ordinarily have completed most if not all of their other studio requirements prior to taking Design Seminar. Design Seminar may be taken as a studio elective by any student who applies and is accepted on the basis of her or his proposal, and evidence of a mature body of work. Fulfills: Graphic Design Senior Capstone Requirement (Graphic Design students); Senior Capstone option (Art Education, GTP, Interdisciplinary Arts and WVN students) Page 33 of 91
