Graphic Class

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If you would like help planning your schedule or want to discuss the Graphics Department with a counselor contact:
Patricia Brannock
Office: Bldg. 15, Room109
Phone: 650.574.6668

100 Adobe Illustrator I (1.5) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture hours and one lab hour plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: MULT 107 or 111 or equivalent Macintosh and/or Windows operating system experience. Creating digital illustrations, including preparing graphics for the web, using Adobe Illustrator drawing software. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. May be taken twice for a maximum of 3 units. (CSU)

101 Adobe Illustrator II (1.5) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture hours and one lab hour plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 100 or equivalent experience. Advanced Illustrator techniques, including blends, gradients, transforming, gradient mesh, brushes, and working from scans. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

102 Adobe Illustrator III (1.5) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture hours and one lab hour plus two hours by arrangement per week. Prerequisite: GRA 100 or equivalent experience. Covers advanced Illustrator techniques, including filters, complex blends; custom brushes and fills, transparency, color models, and creating separations. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

103 Digital Illustration Masters Class (1.5) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option)
Three lecture and one lab hour per week plus two hours by arrangement. Prerequisite: GRA 101 and GRA 121 or equivalent required; GRA 102 recommended. Illustrator and Photoshop skills are used to create unique illustrations for editorial, web, book, poster, card, and other uses. The work and techniques of prominent digital illustrators will be studied; students will learn six to eight unique illustration styles including cartoon, landscape, flat filled art, and technical illustration. Course may betake two times for a maximum of three units. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

105 QuarkXPress I (2) (Credit/No Creditor letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: MULT 100 or 107 or 111 or equivalent Macintosh and/or Windows operating system experience. Use of QuarkXPress page layout software for design and printing of documents. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. May be taken twice for a maximum of 4 units. (CSU)

106 QuarkXPress II (2) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 105 or equivalent experience. Covers working with illustrations and photos, text wraps, paragraph and character level style sheets, master pages in QuarkXPress. Also includes creating and applying color from Pantone and CMYK color models; preparing files for high resolution output and printing. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. Maybe taken twice for a maximum of 4 units. (CSU)

107 Adobe InDesign I (2) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: MULT 111 or equivalent Macintosh and/or Windows operating system experience. Use of Adobe InDesign page layout software for the creation of documents of simple to medium difficulty. Fundamental principles of typography and layout. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. May be taken twice for a maximum of 4 units.) (CSU)

108 Adobe InDesign II (2) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 107 or equivalent experience. Advanced features of Adobe InDesign, including layers, tables, style sheets, typographic controls, color management, output and preflighting applied to difficult, practical projects. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. May be taken twice for a maximum of 4 units.) (CSU)

111 Typography I (2) (Credit/No Creditor letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 110 or 105 or equivalent. Introduction to typography with emphasis on designing with display (large) type. Includes type anatomy, nomenclature and measurement, type categories, choosing the correct voice, optical refinements, interpreting message, and developing contrasts. Also covers display type treatments and applying theory to practical typographic problems. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

111 Typography II (2) (Credit/No Creditor letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 110 or equivalent. Emphasizes designing with text type. Includes how we read, intelligent choice of typeface, size, tracking, line length, margins, gutters, and leading. Extracting a hierarchy, factors effecting readability, visual punctuation, encouraging readers, selecting and creating grids. Applying theory to practical typographic problems. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

120 Adobe Photoshop for Graphic Artists I (1.5) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture hours and one lab hour plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: MULT 100 or 107 or 111 or equivalent Macintosh and/or Windows operating system experience. Creating digital illustrations and photographs, including preparing graphics for the web, using adobe Photoshop and scanners. Designed for the graphic arts generalist. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. Maybe taken twice for a maximum of 3 units. (CSU)

121 Adobe Photoshop for Graphic Artists II (1.5) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture hours and one lab hour plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 120 or equivalent. Continuation of Adobe Photoshop I with emphasis on more advanced features of the software used in image creation and manipulation, including color correction for print and web. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

122 Adobe Photoshop for Graphic Artists III (1.5) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture hours and one lab hour plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 121 or equivalent. Advanced use of Adobe Photoshop. Advanced color correction and image creation, including the preparation of images for print and web. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

130 Graphic Design Foundations I (2)(Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 100 or 105 or equivalent experience with comparable software. Covers principles of design, evolution of a design, and the graphic problem-solving process from concept through presentation. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

131 Graphic Design Foundations II (2)(Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 130 or equivalent experience with comparable software. Covers principles of design, symbolism, and typography. Includes the graphic problem-solving process from concept through presentation, using a variety of practical design problems. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

225 Publication Design (2) Two lecture and two lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week.
Prerequisite: GRA106 and 131 or equivalent. Examines the role in the marketplace of a wide variety of publication formats and provides practical experience creating them. Analyzes the best approaches for communicating editorial and informational messages. Explains editorial design and the expression of content through design as well as the dynamics and principles of page layout. Extra supplies required.

230 Graphic Design: Theory and Application I (2) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 130/131 or equivalent experience. Students visually express content and meaning while exploring and applying design principles. Applies conceptual problem solving to a variety of practical design problems. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

231 Graphic Design: Theory and Application II (2) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week for eight weeks. Prerequisite: GRA 230 or equivalent experience. Students visually express content and meaning by applying design principles to a variety of projects of increasing difficulty. Covers a strategic approach to the design problem solving process, including the role of the designer and working with various types of clients. Extra supplies required. A materials fee in the amount shown in the Schedule of Classes is payable upon registration. (CSU)

241 (formerly 240) Print Fundamentals (3) (Credit/No Credit or letter grade option.)
Six lecture hours per week for eight weeks. Comprehensive exploration and examination of the print production cycle, from concept through bindery. Enables production artists and designers to prepare artwork properly, communicate with printers more effectively, and provides a better understanding of the capabilities of printers and other printing industry vendors. (CSU)

250 Digital Prepress (4)
Three lecture and three lab hours plus two hours by arrangement per week. Prerequisite: GRA102, 106, 122 and 241 or equivalent. Digital mechanicals, digital prepress, digital color, and color reproduction. Working with service bureaus, proofing. Extra supplies required. (CSU)

260 Portfolio (1)
One lecture and one lab hour per week. Prerequisite: completion of three semesters of GRA curriculum or equivalent. Students initiate, develop, and complete substantial individual projects in consultation with and under the direction of the instructor. Emphasizes development of a marketable portfolio. Extra supplies required. (CSU)

641 Cooperative Education (1-4) (See first page of Description of Courses section.)(CSU)
680 - 689 Selected Topics (1-3) (See first page of Description of Courses section.)(CSU)
690 Special Projects (1-2) (See first page of Description of Courses section.) (CSU)
879 Selected Topics (1-3) (See first page of Description of Courses section.)
880 - 889 Selected Topics (1-3) (See first page of Description of Courses section.)