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
Phone Number with Voice Mail: 856-415-2291

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

Require text and publisher:

• Basic of Design – Layout and Design for Beginners by Lisa Graham

• Graphic Design Solutions by Robin Landa

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

This list reflects the core competencies that are essential for all GCC graduates, but does not include all competencies that our graduates should possess:

Solve Problems:

• Critical Thinking and Information Literacy -The ability to access, analyze, synthesize, evaluate and apply information from a variety of sources to make sound decisions.

• Mathematical Reasoning - The ability to understand and solve practical problems using mathematical methods.

• Teamwork - The ability to work collaboratively with others to solve problems efficiently and effectively.

Share information

• Communication - The ability to communicate one’s thoughts in a clear and concise manner both orally and in writing.

• Computer/Technological Literacy - The ability to use technology for research, information processing and communication.

Live responsibly

• Awareness of the Arts - The ability to understand and appreciate literary, visual or performing arts.

• Community Skills - The ability to understand historical and current events in a global context and the social, political and environmental responsibilities of global citizenship.

• Personal Skills - The ability to understand the individual’s responsibility for learning and for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Software Information for this Course...

GCC CORE COMPETENCIES for CGA 103

This course focuses on the following GCC Core Competencies.

These include:

• Critical Thinking and Information Literacy

• Share Information

• Computer and Technological Literacy

• Awareness of the Arts

• Community Skills

• Personal Skills

Student Learning Outcomes:

Instructional materials:

Students are expected to have the following materials:

• USB Flash Drive

• Notebook

• Basic of Design – Layout and Design for Beginners by Lisa Graham

• Graphic Design Solutions by Robin Landa • Required text book

Methods of Instruction

• Studio projects

• Lectures

• Discussions and critiques

• Demonstrations

• Assigned readings

• Written assignments

Methods of Evaluation:

• Studio projects

• Critique

• Class participation

• Completion of reading and writing assignments

• Quizzes

• Portfolio review

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:

• Due to the hands on nature of this class, students are expected to attend all classes. If you miss three or more classes, you will fail the class.

• Due to personal commitments, the professor may miss one class during the semester.

• If you are ill, please try to come to class but keep in mind that others do not want your sickness. If you need to miss a class due to illness or other reasons, please email the professor as soon as possible. If you miss a class, YOU are responsible for making up any work.

• Lecture start at five minutes after the class start time. Please arrive on time and get settled and ready for class.

• Please see the attached Gloucester County college attendance policy listed below.

• In advance of an absence it would be wise to secure the telephone number, email or IM address to keep on top of assignments tests etc..

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:

• Submitting work created by others, including using parts or pieces of artwork

• While viewing a wide variety of artwork will help the student develop their artist/design style, copying another artist’s work in part or outright and submitting it as a student artwork or design is not acceptable.

• Copying coding, such as HTML or CSS, is not acceptable. Students should create the original coding.

• Using images such as photography images without proper credit is not acceptable. This includes photos that have been manipulated (aka PhotoShopped).

• It is unacceptable to submit photographs that have been manipulated (aka PhotoShopped) as original photographs.

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 Room 712 in Scott Hall Building. Please check the window chart 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:

• 814 – KYW 1060 AM school closing number for the day classes

• 2814 – KYW 1060 AM school closing number for evening classes.

• Or check the college web site at www.gccnj.edu

• Or call 468-5000 for a closing message of school closing notification.