The visual journal can be a place of exploration that is portable, economical and inter/cross-disciplinary. Daily journal entries can include and are not limited to drawings, paintings, collages, digital renderings and photography, paper engineering, written observations, and more.
What if your students were to go on a drawing adventure, documenting the journey with GoogleMaps? What if they could create an online, interactive portfolio using Flickr that they could share, not only with their classmates, but also with the rest of the world? What if you could facilitate meaningful critique of your students’ work using VoiceThreads?
Demystify the process of making comics! Working from classic short stories, students will explore a variety of approaches to visual storytelling structures. Learn how clear, precise techniques can convey even the most complex stories.
Economic, environmental, and ethical crises present leaders with new and complex challenges. Effective, resilient, and agile leaders employ a diversity of skills, experience, and resources to respond to humanity's greatest challenges with creative, innovative, and humane solutions. Students will build their capacities to become creative leaders and to work constructively as part of dynamic and collaborative teams through the integration of an ecological perspective for their work, organizations, communities, and the planet.
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of marketing and how it relates to the design and development process. Students will connect the marketing concepts learned in previous courses to the larger concepts of marketing and advertising as a whole. Interactive channels will open a new world of connecting with a target market.
This course allows students to extend the interactive marketing principles learned in Interactive Marketing I by integrating them with an overall marketing strategy. Students will apply critical-thinking skills to coordinate interactive experiences into broader marketing plans by completing comprehensive marketing plans, weaving traditional and interactive marketing strategies together.
This course introduces individuals with little or no design background to the graphic design practice. Essential skills in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator that support the task of each assignment are taught through weekly tutorials.
This fully online, asynchronous course examines American illustration from 1800 to the present day, and the dynamic forces that drive its evolution. Course material will combine a chronological overview with surveys of selected genres, and discussions will focus on ephemera in the Golden Age, Howard Pyle and The Rise of American Illustration.
In this foundational course, students will be introduced to hands-on and holistic approaches to sustainability. This course will cover current sustainability frameworks, principles, and materials assessments, as well as the history and logic behind them, providing students with useful research tools to apply to the ever-changing demands of sustainable design, business, development, and policy-making.
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