12 courses with the subject GCT, 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.
This fundamental course explores the essential concepts of file preparation and management as it relates to print production and web and mobile media creation. Students explore communicating and sharing resources, image design and preparation, and file conversion/optimization, and printing directly from devices.
This fundamental course in two-dimensional design exposes students to the profession of graphic design. The focus is on visual thinking, experimentation, and exploring the relationship of elements. Students explore page layout, design principles, color decisions, typography choices, and working with vector and pixel-based imagery through the creation of practical projects.
An introductory course incorporating vector graphic, digital imaging, and animation/motion software for generating static and motion content for web, mobile, and games. Students gain experience designing, creating, and optimizing loading gifs, cinemagraphs, cartoons/animations, sprite sheets, bitmap textures, social media imagery, and motion-based media elements.
This course emphasizes page layout and design techniques for creating a variety of static printed materials such as posters, flyers, brochures, and interactive digital publications, e-books and PDFs. Basic tools and techniques merge with digital publishing and interactive PDFs to design, create, and distribute engaging communications via mobile and tablet viewing, social networks, URLs, or email.
An introductory course where students apply their art and design skills to create visually compelling, vector-based artwork for creative entertainment, print media, advertising and branding, design elements for web and mobile content, and for the digital media industry.
Environmental graphic design involves the coordination of research, design elements, digital technology with design thinking and creative problem-solving to create symbols, signs, and wayfinding orientation. This course introduces students to various printing technologies from apparel decoration, graphics production and installation to functional printing of simple and complex close register images for various printing market segments. Prerequisite(s): GCT 151
An introductory course exploring creative imaging concepts and techniques to create, correct and improve digital images. This course emphasizes the importance of nondestructive imaging using layers and channels, selections and masks, adjustment layers and typographic design. It focuses on preparing images for print production, and web and mobile media creation.
An introductory course exploring the constantly changing landscape of web design: visual layout and design considerations including user interface design (UI), and user experience (UX). Students will implement these aesthetic influences, web technology, and web standards to address usability issues, layout/positioning methods, image optimization, and web typography in the creation of innovative, credible, functional responsive web design. Prerequisite(s): GCT 126
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Students prepare marketing and self-promotion materials, create a LinkedIn profile page, and develop a digital and web-based showcase portfolio under faculty guidance. Under the supervision of the Career Connections Center, students are involved in an on-campus pre-internship experience in preparation for interviewing for an off-campus internship.
Students explore Adobe’s design, prototype and sharing software in learning the fastest way to design any user experience with intuitive tools and integration with many of the Adobe apps. Students convert wireframes into interactive prototypes with voice interactions and animation, and then share user experiences from websites to mobile apps with team and developers for feedback and deployment to production on both Mac and Windows. Prerequisite(s): GCT 164
Students gain experience involving production art techniques, technical support, and customer service or sales responsibilities that broaden their understanding of the graphic/communications design profession through supervised and evaluated workplace experience in design studios, marketing and advertising agencies, digital fabrication, graphic production, and digital publishing environments. Transportation to an off-campus site is the responsibility of individual student. Prerequisite(s): GCT Program Director Recommendation.
Source: Westmoreland County Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
