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Digital Arts: Print Certificate
To be a success in the field of graphic design, you need to develop professional-level software skills for working with page layout, design and composition, images, color, text and photo manipulation and the calibrations necessary for printed publications. In a series of six-courses you will learn and refine your skills in each of these areas. The curriculum includes hands-on experience working with state-of-the-art equipment.
Admission Requirements
Basic art or design skills Basic writing skills The course Fundamentals of Design is a required prerequisite unless a student can demonstrate that he/she has successfully completed a college-level design course; applicants can also have the requirement waived through the review of a portfolio of their work
Courses in the Digital Arts: Print Certificate Program
Prerequisite
Fundamentals of Design
First Semester:
Introduction to Digital Design
Layout and Design: Adobe InDesign
Digital Imaging: Photoshop Basics
Second Semester:
Computer Illustration: Adobe Illustrator
Advanced Digital Imaging: Photoshop Techniques
Digital Prepress Production
Dual Digital Arts: Print and Web Certificate
The Digital Art: Print and Web curricula have courses in common and students can elect to complete both programs without repeating shared courses.
Academics
- Advertising Design
- Art Education
- Crafts
- Entertainment Arts
(formerly Animation) - Fine Arts
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Interior Design
- Photography
- Product Design
- Transportation Design
- Foundation
- Liberal Arts
- Master of Fine Arts
- Minors
- CCS Experience
- Professional Development
- SB-CEU Courses
- Adult Courses
- Summer Guest Students

