Course Offerings

GC - FUNDAMENTALS
Course #6661 - 0.5 credit

This course provides students with a foundation of essential skills needed for creating print and web documents. Special emphasis is placed on furnishing students with a survey of realistic experiences using Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop. Areas of study include technical illustration, typography, color models, photo retouching and image preparation. This course focuses on development of sound fundamental skills used in later Graphic Communications courses.

Prerequisite: None, Open to grades 9, 10, 11 & 12, Course Lab Fee: $20.00.

GC - DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Course #6650 - 0.5 credits

Learn to design, layout and prepare documents for print. Topics include typography and typographic controls, preparation of photographic and line art, creation of master pages, paragraph and character styles, document pre-flight, and fundamental design and layout principles. Development of fluency with Adobe InDesign and related Adobe products is emphasized. This course covers essential skills used in producing the Devil’s Advocate (newspaper) and El Diablo (yearbook) and is especially recommended for students seeking editorial positions.

Prerequisite: Graphic Communications-Fundamentals OR Journalism 1
J1 or J2 Can be taken concurrently with Dept. approval.
Open to grades 9, 10, 11 & 12. Course Lab Fee: $20.00.

GC - WEB-BASED MULTIMEDIA
Course #6681- 0.5 credit

Create motion graphics and simple game applications! Students will gain experience with Adobe Flash and basic ActionScripting to create the types of motion graphics and basic games found on the web. Fluency in Adobe Flash, animation techniques, and adding interactivity through introduction of ActionScript concepts is the focus of the course.

Prerequisite: Graphic Communications-Fundamentals. Open to grades 9, 10, 11 & 12.
Course Lab Fee: $20.00.

GC - WEB DESIGN
Course #6662 - 0.5 credits

Create professional looking web sites! Web Design provides students with an overview of essential disciplines found in web development and the skills necessary to visually create web sites using Adobe Dreamweaver. Although this is not a programming course, basic coding principles will be covered. Areas of study include Internet history, information architecture, site mapping and wireframe creation, user experience (UX), search engine optimization (SEO), basic AJAX integration via Adobe SPRY technology, and development of fluency with Dreamweaver.

Prerequisite: Graphic Communications-Fundamentals. Open to grades 9, 10, 11 & 12.
Course Lab Fee: $20.00.

GC - ADVANCED GRAPHICS
Course #6660- 0.5 credit

This course is designed for those students who wish to apply the skills learned in their study of Graphic Communications more deeply to real world projects. Students will focus on several areas of interest and develop real world products in a client-project manager arrangement. The outcome of this course is a comprehensive electronic portfolio for use in many college and university admission processes.

Prerequisite: Two semesters of Graphic Communications. Open to grades 10, 11 & 12.
Course Lab Fee: $20.00.

GC -INDEPENDENT STUDY
Course #6905 (1st Semester), #6906 (2nd Semester)- 0.5 credit per semester.

This course is intended for students who have exhausted other course offerings and wish to further skills learned in the Graphic Communications program in an independent atmosphere.

Prerequisite: DEPARTMENT APPROVAL. Open to grade 10-12 only.