Web and Graphic Design Certificate

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FINE-107
Intro to Digital Arts & Media
Typical Offerings
Timing Fall/Spring Only, Every Year
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  • Required Supporting Lab: FINE-107L
Description
Learners will further develop image-making skills and ideas about pictorial space in a digital environment, along with the historical and conceptual connections between digital technologies and contemporary art. Instruction will include the use of computer graphics software and hardware, digital input, image processing, and digital output. Content will also include computer concepts such as the relation of analogue to digital, bitmap and vectorbased images, resolution, and archiving work. Learners will create a digital portfolio of their work.
ENGL-120
Cont Strat for Online Writing
Typical Offerings
Timing Fall/Spring Only, Every Year
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Description
This course introduces forms and strategies for online content development. With use of narrative being increasingly important in web marketing, students will find material and shape content according to audience needs and expectations. Students will explore development patterns for forms including blogs, social media, wikis, landing pages, press releases and more, and discover how content strategies can drive web traffic. Students will also explore new perspectives to condense and simplify existing content, and practise writing and editing their own and each other's work.
WEGD-121
Intro to Design Thinking
Typical Offerings
Timing Fall Only, Every Year
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Description
Design Thinking investigates "Individual as Innovator" by working on design problems in a human, interactive, collaborative, and prototypical way. Students will gain an understanding of the methodology and language used in human-centred design as they problem solve for real and fictitious clieents. Participants will empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test their way to solutions for business, visual, online, and print media using traditional tools and industry standard software programs. Project-based assignments will develop a foundation in design thinking suitable for those going on to study in a variety of design disciplines.
WEGD-131
Intro to Visual Communication
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Timing Spring Only, Every Year
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Visual Communication focuses on developing an understanding of the reasons and ways in which people have chosen to communicate. Students will investigate a variety of visual communication examples from the historical to the contemporary and use them as catalyst for their own work. The course will survey work from a variety of different cultures, including Canadian First nations. Students will use those investigations to create their own case studies of techniques both past and present, and will share their projects through a variety of presentations.
WEGD-141
Introduction to Web Design
Typical Offerings
Timing Fall Only, Every Year
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Description
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of website design. Students will learn how to design, develop, optimize, publish, and troubleshoot basic HTML and CSS based websites. Students will create websites with standard text editors and with industry leading website development and image editing software. The class is taught with a focus on current and emerging web standards and best practices. Students will analyze and assess other websites to gain insight into the design of their own websites.
WEGD-142
Intermediate Web Design
Typical Offerings
Timing Spring Only, Every Year
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Requisites
  • Prerequisite: WEGD-141 minimum C
Description
This course is a continuation of WEGD 141 and focuses on intermediate concepts around designing, developing, optimizing, publishing, and troubleshooting HTML and CSS based websites. More advanced concepts around user experience, interactive design, and search engine optimization will be discussed. Learners will gain experience in integrating other forms of media into their websites including animation, audio and video. Students will become proficient using industry-leading website development and image editing software. Students will gain an awareness of other technologies that, while beyond the scope of this course, are important components of the current website development landscape.
WEGD-151
The Basics of Typography
Typical Offerings
Timing Spring Only, Every Year
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Description
A must for all who wish to design visual solutions that present clear messages, this course will discuss, evaluate and research aspects of Typography as the most basic element of design. Students will learn the role of type in communication as they investigate 'meaning aesthetics' and 'functionality' of letterforms, individually and in word, sentence and paragraph formations. Through the study of typography's graphic and communicative elements, the class will examine letterform anatomy and analysis, form and counter-form, hierarchy, legibility, type conveyance of voice, mood, and meaning and the use of grids. The knowledge gained in this class can be applied to solving any visual problem that involves the typographic form whether it will be presented on a sheet or screen.
WEGD-161
Graphic Design Fundamentals
Typical Offerings
Timing Fall Only, Every Year
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Description
Students gain an understanding of the basic terminology of graphic design to comprehend and communicate visual language. The elements and principles of design and use of perspective and proportion are explored in both colour and black and white. Using analogue and digital tools and techniques, students respond to design challenges in a range of media, combining text and images with skill and intention to convey concepts and ideas.
WEGD-261
Intro to Bus for Creatives
Typical Offerings
Timing Spring Only, Every Year
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Description
Students envision their future as creatives either working for themselves or other companies and clients, learning to align that future with their values and aspirations. The skills and vocabulary that support working for oneself or a business will be introduced through a creative lens. Focusing on their personal goals, students will gain understanding of and create tools for: identifying their interests, marketing to an audience, analyzing a business landscape, prioritizing tasks, and financial planning.

English choice

ENGL-103
Composition & Style
Typical Offerings
Timing All Terms, Every Year
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Description
A study of grammar, composition, and style. A vigorous program of essay-writing plus a variety of writing assignments or exercises dealing with specific problems in essay-writing. Strongly recommended for students who wish to improve their writing skills.
ENGL-113
Writing and Communication
Typical Offerings
Timing All Terms, Every Year
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Description
ENGL 113 introduces students to the principles and practices of effective written and oral communications in English as applied in current academic, business, and technical contexts in university course levels. Instruction will emphasize grammar, punctuation, style, and presentation as important elements applied to a wide variety of writing and speaking situations: e-mail, letters, reports, and instructional and persuasive talks. Research strategies will be practiced.

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