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| GD 200 - Graphic Design I |
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| 3 credits. Nead, Perkins, Sherman. Offered fall. Students become familiar with the broader discipline of graphic design through the construction of images, symbols, and sequential systems. Conceptual thinking and the integration of typography with imagery are explored throughout the course. Prerequisites: FF 102 and FF 199. Sophomore requirement. |
| GD 211 - Graphic Design II |
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| 3 credits. Fifield, Perkins, Sherman. Offered spring. Students become familiar with the discipline of graphic design through the construction of images, symbols, and sequential systems. Conceptual thinking and the integration of typography with imagery are explored throughout the course. Prerequisites: GD 200 and GD 201. Sophomore requirement. |
| GD 300 - Graphic Design III |
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| 3 credits. Fifield. Offered fall. Students continue to explore the discipline of graphic design through problems that integrate conceptual thinking with formal experimentation. Students are encouraged to develop languages of design that reflect their own artistic and cultural identities while communicating to various audiences. The properties and traditions of different genres of public address are explored. Prerequisites: GD 200 and GD 201. |
| GD 320 - Graphic Design IV |
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| 3 credits. Fifield. Offered spring only. Students continue to explore the discipline of graphic design through problems that integrate conceptual thinking with formal experimentation. Students are encouraged to develop languages of design that reflect their own artistic and cultural identities while communicating to various audiences. The properties and traditions of various genres of public address are explored. Prerequisites: GD 300 and GD 301 |
| GD 5201 - Typography I |
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| Typography is the art of organizing letters in space and time. Students gain a familiarity with typographic terms and technologies; an understanding of classical and contemporary typographic forms; an ability to construct typographic compositions and systems; and an appreciation of typography as an expressive medium that conveys aesthetic, emotional, and intellectual meaning. Prerequisites: FF 102 and FF 199 or equivalent (Graphic Design I, Introduction to Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress). |
| GD 319 - Typography II |
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| 3 credits. Carlos, Nead, Phillips. Offered spring. Building on the basic knowledge and experience gained in Typography I, this course furthers students' awareness of typography as an expressive medium that carries personal, aesthetic, and social meaning. Students are encouraged to work at a variety of scales and to develop their personal typographic voices. Time bases and interactive projects are introduced. Prerequisites: GD 200 and GD 201. Sophomore requirement. |
| IM 200 - Interactive Media I |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered fall, spring. This is the first class in a sequence of courses designed to educate students in interaction design for on–screen and off-screen experiences. Students will be introduced to the techniques and concepts of interactivity for a variety of distributable media and one-of-a-kind experiences, onscreen and off screen. Investigation will include website typologies such as client-oriented and network-art sites; basic interface design; and the integration of concept, event, and content, providing students with an opportunity to become literate in the form language of hypermedia. Students explore the changing roles of artists and designers in the environment of the World Wide Web, learning processes, software, and languages to create dynamic interactive web-sites. Students are introduced to the principles of user experience in relation to content and meaning. They learn to analyze conventional and unconventional network experiences; to identify principles in action and develop strategies for site design. They investigate different spatial models; performative models; and relationships to audience to create expressive interpretive experiences. Prerequisite: EA 210. |
| GD 5301 - Flexible Design Studio I |
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| 3 credits. Fifield, visiting artists. Offered fall. This intermediate design course offers students the opportunity to work with a diverse group of professional designers. Students participate in workshops of their choosing and investigate a variety of approaches. Emphasis is on solving real-world problems in a professional studio atmosphere. Prerequisites: GD 200 and GD 201. Junior requirement. |
| GD 330 - PhotoImaging |
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| 3 credits. staff. Offered fall, spring. Students develop the critical thinking and technical skills to use photography in their work as designers, while exploring the theoretical perspectives and practical applications of digital imagery and its relationship to graphic design. prerequisite: EA 210. |
| GD 400 - Advanced Graphic Design I |
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| 3 credits. Conroy, Genovese, Phillips, J. Offered fall. Students prepare to enter professional practice with a series of intensive projects aimed at portfolio development. Instructors work to identify students' problem areas, helping them to improve skills that are weak and build on their personal interests and abilities. Prerequisites: GD 301 and GD 320. |
| GD 411 - Advanced Graphic Design II |
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| 3 credits. Conroy, Phillips, J. Offered spring. Students prepare to enter professional practice with a series of intensive projects aimed at portfolio development. Instructors work to identify students' problem areas, helping them to improve skills that are weak and build on their personal interests and abilities. Prerequisite: GD 400. |
| GD 402 - Senior Seminar |
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| 3 credits. Lupton, Miller, Phillips. Offered fall, spring. Students work on projects that expand their production skills and their familiarity with professional practice issues. This project-based course complements the portfolio development goals of Advanced Graphic Design I and II. Visiting artists provide critiques and seminar presentations. Prerequisites: GD 300 and GD 301. Required for seniors. |
| Studio Electives – any department |
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| GD 288 - Underground Web Publishing |
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| 3 credits. Harrison. Offered occasionally. Tired of pretentious uninspiring content on the web? This course enables the student to become author, art director, and editor of their own on-line publication. Issues of format, identitiy, audience, and content development are addressed as students build their publication. An emphasis on critical and creative thinking will be complemented with tailored production lectures for individual projects. Guest lecturers and various forms of underground culture and media will also be incorporated. This class will conclude with each student having produced a fully functioning web site featuring original and/or curated content. Prerequisite: IM 200 |
| GD 312 - Publication Design |
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| 3 credits. Carlos. Offered occasionally. This course looks at the design of magazines, newspapers, and other serial forms of print publication. Issues of format, identity, audience, and content development are addressed and students build their skills in typography, layout, and photo editing. |
| GD 5568 - Motion Graphics |
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| 3 credits. Kebaili. Offered Fall. This class will focus on understanding time-based design issues within the broadcast medium, namely how elements of space, time, and motion affect the traditional, print-based, understanding of typographic form and communication. The objective of the projects is to create portfolio quality pieces that are both relevant to the Broadcast Design industry as well as push the boundaries of design within this newer medium. Open to Senior GD Majors and GD MFA students. Prerequisite: GD 300. |
| LA 319 - Formica: MICAzine |
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| 3 credits. Fifield. Offered fall, spring. this interdisciplinary course invites writers, artists, photographers, designers, illustrators and cartoonists to learn all aspects of publication design through serving as staff for FORMICA, the college's student-run magazine. Students will serve as the publication's editorial board, in addition to generating content themselves. tHey will seek work from the greater MICA student community. Class memebers will create, design, produce and market the magazine. Recommended for highly motivated students who manage time well, this class will be organized on a schedule and structure that closely models a professional working environment. Faculty leaders will guide students creating an effective editorial process, working to a realistic production schedule and budget, but class members will retain full responsibility for the publication, additional policy, content, and design. This course may be used as either a studio or liberal arts elective. Open to all majors. |
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| GD 5336 - Experimental Typography |
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| 3 credits. Students will explore traditional and experimental approaches to lettering and typography in the context of design, art, and theory, and receive an indoctrination/introduction to the Post Typographic revolution. This course is taught by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen of Post Typography, two young designers who are rapidly becoming known for their confrontational aesthetic, conceptual typefaces, and unconventional lettering. |
| GD 350 - The Advertising Apprentice |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered occasionally. With the fundamentals of art theory behind them, MICA students are ready for fast-paced, real life design experience. In this course students will learn the tricks and skills required to become a sought-after art director, while working on projects for actual brand name clients. They will develop and present advertising campaigns with the opportunity to have their work produced to run in national TV, print and outdoor media at the end of the semester. The classroom sessions focus on creative development and critique, and will use classic advertising dilemmas to build problem-solving expertise. This course will transform undergraduate art students into savvy, marketable art directors who are ready to succeed in the "real" world. Prerequisite: GD 220. |
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