CGA 103 - Course Information
CGA103 – Design, Color and Type
Mary A. Malinconico, Instructor

 

Course Title: Design, Color and Type
Credit hours: 3
Studio hours: 4
Instructor: Mary A. Malinconico
Length of semester: 15 weeks


Contact Information:

Office: College Center 159 College or Scott 712

Professor Mary will provide her cell phone number

College Email: mmalinconico@gccnj.edu
Home Email: mary@malinconico.com
Facebook: Mary A. Malinconico

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Catalog Description:
This design and type course will focus on developing a student's awareness of Design elements including line, shape, value, color, texture, and space. The Design principles of balance, proximity, alignment, unity, emphasis, and rhythm will be covered. Design concepts will be considered as they affect the fine arts, crafts, and commercial arts. Lettering explores the basic forms of hand lettering. The course will cover an overview of typography and issues of designing with type. Typography covers basic type classifications and usage including the study of selection of proper type for specific purposes.

Goals:

To provide students with an understanding of the basic fundamentals design and typography

Specific Objectives of the course:

  1. Apply principles of visual form as studied in the prerequisite sequence of courses to the needs of graphic design

  2. Gain a working knowledge of the role of function in visual communications

  3. Develop the ability to generate appropriate ideas

  4. Develop the ability to make critical assessments of design problems and solutions

  5. Understand the process of design as a synthesis of formal, functional, creative, and critical viewpoints

  6. Develop a personal viewpoint of aesthetics and creativity in design problem solving

Gloucester County College CORE COMPETENCIES

Core Competencies - This list reflects the core competencies that are essential for all GCC graduates, but does not include all competencies that our graduates should possess. Critical Thinking is embedded in all courses

Written Communication
Students will communicate effectively in writing.

• Oral Communication
Students will communicate effectively in speech.

• Quantitative Knowledge and Skills
Students will use appropriate mathematical and statistical concepts and operations to interpret data and to solve problems.

• Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning
Students will use the scientific method of inquiry, through the acquisition of scientific knowledge.

• Technological Competency/Information Literacy
Students will use computer systems or other appropriate forms of technology to achieve educational and personal goals.

• Society and Human Behavior
Students will use social science theories and concepts to analyze human behavior and social and political institutions and to act as responsible citizens.

• Humanistic Perspective
Students will analyze works in the fields of art, history, music, or theater; literature; philosophy and/or religious studies; and/or will gain competence in the use of a foreign language.

• Historical Perspective
Students will understand historical events and movements in World, Western, non-Western or American societies and assess their subsequent significance.

• Global and Cultural Awareness
Students will understand the importance of a global perspective and culturally diverse peoples.

• Ethical Reasoning and Action
Students will understand ethical issues and situations.

• Teamwork
Students will work collaboratively with others to solve problems efficiently and effectively.

• Personal Skills
Students will understand the individual’s responsibility for learning and for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Updated June 2011

 

 

GCC CORE COMPETENCIES for CGA 103

This course focuses on the following GCC Core Competencies.

These include:

 

Student Learning Outcomes:

 

CGA 103 students will

GCC Core Competency

Evaluation/Assessment

Students will be present open-ended design problems to solve with critical thinking and research.

 

  • Critical Thinking

 

  • Project Rubric

  • Self Evaluation of student work

Students will understand and demonstrate the use of the points and pica measurement system that is used in the Graphic Arts Industry

 

  • Humanistic Persepective

 

  • Project Rubric

 

Students will use a computer the primary creative tool in this class.

 

  • Technological Competency
    Information Literacy

 

  • CGA Check list of Skills Rubric

Students will be asked to gather printed examples of design to share with the class and to develop an awareness of current design trends.

 

  • Personal Skills

  • Awareness of the Arts

 

  • Project Rubrics

 

 

Instructional materials:

Students are expected to have the following materials:

Software Information for this Course...

Methods of Instruction

 

Methods of Evaluation:

Contacting Me:

If you need to contact me, please email me or leave me a message on my voicemail. Please state the nature of your problem and please give me a telephone number and a time when I can reach you. During the first class, I will tell you my final schedule for the semester. It is best to send email as well as call and leave a message.

Class Attendance Policy:

Electronic Devices:
No phones or pagers are to be activated during class in a manner that would be disruptive. If necessary for an emergency, use the vibrator option to be alerted and leave the room before responding. No phones may be visible during exams or quizzes.

Important Rule:
If you need additional assistance, please ask! I will make every effort to provide you any assistance that you need. But I cannot help if I do not know you need assistance.

Instant Message and Web Surfing Policy:
Students need to be 100% focused on the lecture, labture and lab assignments. Student should NOT use Instant Message or surf the web during class. If the professor see you surfing or IMing, you will be warned once and then marked absent for the class. If you miss more than three classes, you will fail the class. Do NOT IM or Surf during class!

ACADEMIC HONESTY STATEMENT:

Gloucester County College is committed to a learning environment that embraces the principles of honesty. Faculty, students, and administrators share responsibility for maintaining this environment of academic honesty and integrity, accepting responsibility for all actions, personal and academic.

Each member of our community is expected to read and understand our Academic Integrity Policy. This policy can be found on the GCC Web site at http://www.gccnj.edu/general_information/policies/academic_policies.cfm.

The policy gives faculty authority to impose an academic sanction, which is reasonable and commensurate with the violation.

In the Computer Graphic Arts program, academic honesty and integrity includes using and submitting artwork that is created by the others. Please keep in mind the following, which are all violations of this policy:

Method for making up missed work:
A penalty of one grade will be assessed for late work. For example, if you earned a B+ on an assignment, you would receive a B. Please speak to the instructor regarding making up work that has been announced. Prior notice of absences is necessary and will facilitate the instructor and the students cooperating to make up missed work. Please see the Course Weekly Guide to schedule your assignments.

Specific conditions for audit:
The student auditing a class is expected to attend the class and required to complete all class work, homework, and readings. Students auditing the class will not have to take exams or quizzes.

Lab Time:
Additional computer/studio lab time is required for this course. Lab hours will be available in the Instructional Center Lab, which is open MANY hours during a week.. Please check the hours of operations on the lab door for specific hours.

Gloucester County College Attendance Policy :
Students attain maximum academic benefits through regular class attendance nothing else has yet been discovered to replace in value the daily, to an educational growth that results from regular participation in class. This is especially true where ideas, concepts, points of view, social development, poise, confidence, knowledge and success derived from the interaction of students and faculty.

Therefore, students are expected to attend all class sessions for which they are scheduled. Each instructor, consistent with his or her stated policy providing course outlines, will determine the effects of absences on the student’s grades.

Gloucester County Tutoring Program
The college operates a tutoring program for students seeking assistance in any course. A tutoring lab is located on the second floor in a learning resource building, LRC 603, above the college bookstore. Students are encouraged take advantage of the service.

Gloucester County College Testing Center
The College offers a testing center for faculty in student use. Your structure will indicate if this option is available for your class. A testing center in the component of the learning resource center which is located above the college bookstore.

Gloucester County College Closing Notification
The official college closure notification is: