Communication Design Curriculum
Communication Design students enrolling at CCS will be required to own or purchase a laptop computer for their studies.
Course # | Course Title | Credits | |
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SLP 007 | CCS First Year Experience | 1 | |
DFN 135 | Image Concepts I | 3 | |
DFN 137 | 2D & 3D Integrated Design Studio | 3 | |
DFN 139 | Color & Light Studies | 3 | |
DGD 151 | Typography I | 3 | |
DEN 101 | Composition I | 3 | |
Course # | Course Title | Credits |
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DFN 136 | Image Concepts II | 3 |
DFN 138 | 4D Design Studio | 3 |
DFN 142 | Performative Spaces | 3 |
DGD 152 | Typography II | 3 |
DGD 124 | Motion Essentials | 3 |
DEN 102 | Composition II | 3 |
Course # | Course Title | Credits |
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DGD 251 | Typography III | 3 |
DGD 263 | User Interface Design | 3 |
DGD 211 | Introduction to Communication Design I | 3 |
DAH 200 | Western Art History/Visual Culture | 3 |
DEN239 | Survey of World Literature | 3 |
Course # | Course Title | Credits | |
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DGD 264 | User Experience Design | 3 | |
DGD 212 | Introduction to Communication Design II | 3 | |
DGD 224 | Motion Narratives | ||
Choose One | DAH 201 | Visual Narration: Asia | 3 |
DAH 201 | Visual Narration: Africa/America | ||
DLE --- | General Education Elective | 3 |
Course # | Course Title | Credits |
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DGD 311 | Intermediate Communication Design I | 3 |
DGD 317 | Professional Studio Practice I | 3 |
DGD 365 | Immersive Spaces | 3 |
DVC 200 | Concepts & Methods/Visual Culture | 3 |
DAH 347 | History of Graphic Design | 3 |
DLE --- | General Education Elective | 3 |
Course # | Course Title | Credits |
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DGD 312 | Intermediate Communication II | 3 |
DGD - - - | Communication Design Elective | 3 |
DLE --- | General Education Elective | 3 |
DNS 300 | Natural Science | 3 |
D- - - - - | Elective | 3 |
Course # | Course Title | Credits | |
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DGD 411 | Advanced Communication Design I | 3 | |
DGD - - - | Communication Design Elective | 3 | |
DGD - - - | Communication Design Elective | 3 | |
Choose One | DAH** --- | Art History | 3 |
DVC** --- | Visual Culture Elective | ||
DLE --- | General Education Elective | 3 |
Course # | Course Title | Credits |
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DGD 412 | Advanced Communication Design II | 3 |
DGD 418 | Professional Studio Practice II | 3 |
DGD - - - | Communication Design Elective | 3 |
DLE --- | General Education Elective | 3 |
D-- --- | Elective | 3 |
**DAH/DVC must be taken at the 200 level or higher
Catalog Year 18/19 Total Credits 126-127
Total credits: 127: First Year Experience=1; Foundations=18; Major=60; Liberal Arts=42; General Elective=6
Vision Statement
The Communication Design Department at CCS creates future-focused design leaders through our multi- disciplinary curricular approach. Our program facilitates systemic thinking while nurturing visual and verbal design competencies that can live in the dynamic and static media spaces.
Mission Statement
CCS Communication Design is a multi-disciplinary program that blends traditional graphic design, UxD, motion graphics, writing, and strategy to create design leaders. We embrace the reality that messages are increasingly dynamic, not static. We value creating design strategies that are empathetic to human values and audiences who are part of our diverse cultural condition. We develop solutions that take the complex and seek to make them accessible. Our goal is to inspire curiosity through inquiry, creating designers who lead.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLO)
Upon graduation, students in the BFA Communication Design program will be able to:
- Demonstrate an ability to use a variety of research methodologies including an awareness of sustainability in developing communications relevant to society, various audience groups and specific end users.
- Use code and other sources of dynamic media to achieve specific communication solutions relevant to audience and user experience.
- Use experimentation and play in the process of translating the obvious into the unique, to see the everyday in new ways and as a method of creating solutions that are unexpected.
- Demonstrate an ability to use informed critical judgment in selecting and utilizing components to achieve defined communication goals.
- Demonstrate an ability to use design and good organization in presenting clear project concepts and final outcomes.
- Demonstrate ethical leadership in interpreting and responding to communication need and opportunity.