5 courses with the subject MMMM, 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.
MMMM 2310Desktop Publishing3
Desktop publishing (DTP) merges the fields of writing and editing, typography, photography and graphics, layout and design, and printing. Using industry-standard desktop publishing software, students create a variety of practice publications as well as their own original documents. Students work with text and graphic frames, manipulate text formatting, incorporate process and spot colors, develop tables and use tabs properly, create graphics and work with transparency, and package and export documents for commercial printing.
In this advanced DTP course, students focus on creating longer and more complicated documents using industry-standard desktop publishing software. Students develop multiple master pages and templates; create a table of contents and index for a book; prepare color separations; write headlines and photo cutlines; and apply principles of color theory, good design, and proper typography. Projects include advertisements, logos, fliers, business forms, informational graphics, newsletters, newspapers, and books.
Students are introduced to a sophisticated computer graphics software package. Using a variety of electronic tools, students create, draw, edit, and manipulate objects. Students incorporate color and typography, particularly special effects, into a variety of design projects and establish a relationship of computer-generated art to other software applications, such as multimedia, digital photography, and desktop publishing.
Students learn to plan and design interactive media products for use in multimedia presentations, web pages and internet applications. Students apply principles of usability design and understanding the medium by planning, developing, and evaluating user requirements, personas, navigation, information architecture, site maps, wire-framing, visual hierarchy, paper prototyping and user tests.
In this introduction to digital image capture and manipulation media course, students create digital images with a digital camera. Students demonstrate camera capture modes, evaluate compositional guidelines in their images, recognize appropriate color modes, resolution, and file formats for standard methods of output, analyze ethical and legal issues, and recognize and apply color correction, retouching and restoration techniques.
