JOU 4421 - Advanced Design
Catalog description:
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: JOU 3211 Design
Recommended courses: JOU 4445C, Applied Magazines; MMC 3260, Internet Communication
Student goals for the course:
Students who finish JOU 4421 Advanced Design, should be able to:
- Produce a portfolio of professional level newspaper and magazine pages
- Be able to produce professional level news, sports, features and illustration pages
- Have working knowledge of page design for newspapers and magazines
- Have basic knowledge of Photoshop software as an illustration tool
- Have basic knowledge in the use of graphic devices such as sidebars and fact boxes
- Have working knowledge of color theory
- Have working knowledge of production norms
- Have advanced skills in typography for publication use
- Have working knowledge of contemporary picture editing practices and norms
- Have working knowledge of interrelationships between news, design and photo desks at publications
- Understand the role of publication design management
Assignments:
- Picture page
- News page
- Sports front
- Publication report
- Illustration
- Magazine
- Final portfolio
Semesters this course is offered: Fall
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