GRDS 4460 Advanced Graphic Design Studio

Advanced exploration of graphic design across multiple platforms. Students engage with semester long exploration of topics that engage them. Final product for the class will lead into or result in Capstone work for the major.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

GRDS 3350

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: fall day, spring day

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Advance concepts, principles, language, and techniques specific to graphic design.
2. Understand design practice.
3. Communicate and critically analyze one’s own design work in relation to current design trends.
4. Develop and strengthen the creative process (through research, sketching, exploring media, variations, and refinements).
5. Demonstrate skills in creative problem solving in the visual arts.
6. Demonstrate an ability to produce refined, sophisticated conceptual design work that illuminates the subject and supports the content.
7. Experiment with solutions, critically analyze the results of their own solutions, and make modifications.
8. Demonstrate a deeper awareness of software/tools and design knowledge/thinking relevant to visual communication practice.