Course Outline
I. Course Identification
Prefix and Number ART 251
Course Title Digital Art/Design: Special Topics
Hours 3 Credit Hours
0 Lecture/Demonstration
6 Lab/Studio
0 Clinical
6 Total contact hours per week
Pre-requisite: Registration or credit in ART-246, ART 248 or consent of instructor
II. Catalog Description
This course covers various topics based on emerging career and technology trends. The topics to be covered during a particular semester will be identified in the college schedule of classes. A syllabus documenting the specific topics, description, learning outcomes and information about prerequisite skills will be available as each class is added to the schedule. Fee is required. (4 contact hours)
III. Major Course Concepts
1. Computer system information
2. Crucial role of planning and front-end design
3. Principles of digital art and/or design using electronic media
4. Understanding and use of industry-standard software
5. Input/output devices and techniques/files and storage
IV. Expected Outcomes for Student Learning
Course Content Outcomes
1. Learn how to integrate principles of composition and design, typography, and visual communication to enhance the content of project.
2. Use the design process effectively to plan well-designed content.
3. Have a clear understanding of the operation of main features of software title/s used for the topic.
4. Produce a portfolio of work that will demonstrate the quality and substance of the students' thinking and design abilities.
V. Assessment of Student Learning
A. Typical classroom assessment techniques
X Projects
Group participation
Objective tests
X Studio/Lab performance
Comprehensive final exam
X Electronic portfolios
Essays
Oral Examination
Research report
B. Required assignments
Summative final project
Significant writing component
C. Additional assessment information (optional).
1. Midterm
2. Critiques
3. Written Concepts
4. Electronic Portfolios - The digital portfolio is saved as a .pdf file that contains the four projects completed over the duration of the course. Concept statements are written for each project. The Electronic Portfolio is evaluated at the end of the semester as the students' Comprehensive Final Exam. The digital portfolio is also printed as a chapter in the students' book (portfolio) that includes all required coursework in the A.A.S. in Digital Art/Design, and often used to evaluate equivalency at other institutions.
Note: All general education eligible and transfer courses must include a writing component and a comprehensive final examination.
Prefix and Number ART 251
Course Title Digital Art/Design: Special Topics
Hours 3 Credit Hours
0 Lecture/Demonstration
6 Lab/Studio
0 Clinical
6 Total contact hours per week
Pre-requisite: Registration or credit in ART-246, ART 248 or consent of instructor
II. Catalog Description
This course covers various topics based on emerging career and technology trends. The topics to be covered during a particular semester will be identified in the college schedule of classes. A syllabus documenting the specific topics, description, learning outcomes and information about prerequisite skills will be available as each class is added to the schedule. Fee is required. (4 contact hours)
III. Major Course Concepts
1. Computer system information
2. Crucial role of planning and front-end design
3. Principles of digital art and/or design using electronic media
4. Understanding and use of industry-standard software
5. Input/output devices and techniques/files and storage
IV. Expected Outcomes for Student Learning
Course Content Outcomes
1. Learn how to integrate principles of composition and design, typography, and visual communication to enhance the content of project.
2. Use the design process effectively to plan well-designed content.
3. Have a clear understanding of the operation of main features of software title/s used for the topic.
4. Produce a portfolio of work that will demonstrate the quality and substance of the students' thinking and design abilities.
V. Assessment of Student Learning
A. Typical classroom assessment techniques
X Projects
Group participation
Objective tests
X Studio/Lab performance
Comprehensive final exam
X Electronic portfolios
Essays
Oral Examination
Research report
B. Required assignments
Summative final project
Significant writing component
C. Additional assessment information (optional).
1. Midterm
2. Critiques
3. Written Concepts
4. Electronic Portfolios - The digital portfolio is saved as a .pdf file that contains the four projects completed over the duration of the course. Concept statements are written for each project. The Electronic Portfolio is evaluated at the end of the semester as the students' Comprehensive Final Exam. The digital portfolio is also printed as a chapter in the students' book (portfolio) that includes all required coursework in the A.A.S. in Digital Art/Design, and often used to evaluate equivalency at other institutions.
Note: All general education eligible and transfer courses must include a writing component and a comprehensive final examination.
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