Graphic Design: Graphic Arts - Certificate

Graphic Arts Certificate

The pace and volume of content production continues to accelerate. This increasing demand for content promises to keep the graphic arts field expanding with a wealth of career and creative opportunities, both in the print field as well as in digital media.

Opportunities range from electronic page layout, illustration, visual asset production, print production, image manipulation, and presswork, as well as production for the web and interactive media.

This program emphasizes training in principles and techniques used in graphic art production for print and digital media, and students completing the program will be fluent in industry-standard software.

This program differs from our graphic design programs in that it emphasizes software training while requiring fewer units of design-focused classes. However, graphic design principles are addressed in the core classes in this program.

The classes in the core requirements should be taken in the general order that they are listed.

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Career/Transfer Opportunities

Career opportunities include the following: commercial art, print production, web production, graphic arts production, as well as print and electronic publishing.

• Career Opportunities in Graphic Design
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Program Learning Outcomes:

• Students will become proficient in software used in the print production environment and produce a long form project that is suitable for publication.
• Students will learn production techniques required in the production of digital media.
• Students will create original illustrations using Illustrator's creative tools.

To earn this certificate, students must complete the minimum required courses with a grade of C (or P) or better.

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Required Core Curriculumn Courses:

Plus an additional course(s) required from the following for a minimum of 23 units: