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CIS 195 - Layout Design Projects


Last Date of Approval: Spring 2022

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 15
Course Description:
Students take design and composition to the next level building on earlier Layout Design classes. Students work on design projects from concept to finished product to gain insights and experience while exploring the challenges of designing posters, logos, magazine covers and more.

Prerequisites: GRA 176 , GRA 177, CIS 194  
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Layout Design I, II, & III or instructor permission

Mode(s) of Instruction: face-to-face

Course Fees: None

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:

  1. Improved skills in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
  2. Improved knowledge of design principles, typography, colors.
  3. Have beginning knowledge of post-production (printing process, pagination, inks, resolutions, file formats, separations, etc.).
  4. Improved knowledge of the Macintosh operating system.

Course Objectives:

  1. Students will be able to apply advanced techniques of InDesign (and other Adobe programs) to create a minimum of six design projects.
  2. Students will discuss, explain, and appropriately apply the terminology of advanced layout design.
  3. Students will be able to evaluate and discuss their classmates design work.



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