Desktop Publishing

The Desktop Publishing Certificate provides the skills necessary to conceive, layout and produce graphics and type for print media.

This certificate requires the completion of no fewer than 29 units from the courses listed below:

Required courses (23 units total)
- Select one of the Intro classes
  - ACG100 Intro to Computer Graphics (3 units)
  - ACG102 Introduction to Web Graphics (3 units)
  - ACG108 Survey of Graphics Software (3 units)
- Select two from the following
  - ART120 Basic Visual Design (3 units)
  - ART141 Advertising and Graphic Design II (3 units)
  - PRNT70 Quick Print/In-Plant Graphics (3 units)
  - PRNT75 Electronic Prepress (3 units)
- Take all of the following
  - ACG112 Electronic Illustration (3 units)
  - ACG132 Electronic Paint (3 units)
  - ACG140 Desktop Publishing I (3 units)
  - ACG146 Desktop Publishing II (3 units)
  - ART140 Advertising and Graphic Design I (2 units)
Restricted electives (6 units total)
- Computer Graphics classes
  - ACG120 3D Modeling (3 units)
  - ACG150AB 3D Computer Animation (3 units)
  - ACG162 Multimedia Animation (3 units)
  - ACG164 Multimedia Authoring (3 units)
- Art classes
  - ART118 Color Theory and Practice (2 units)
  - ART120 Basic Visual Design (3 units)
  - ART123 Business Practices in Art (3 units)
  - ART141 Advertising and Graphic Design II (3 units)
  - ART142A Advertising and Graphic Design III (2 units)
- Journalism classes
  - JOUR227ABCD Newspaper Management, Makeup and Editing (3 units)
- Printing Technology classes
  - PRNT55 Printing (3 units)
  - PRNT70 Quick Print/In-Plant Graphics (3 units)
  - PRNT75 Electronic Prepress (3 units)
  - PRNT130 Graphics (2 units)

last modified 2004-03-17