Austin Community College

FY 2004 Degree Plan

Digital Publishing and Graphics Technology

The Digital Publishing Department provides entry-level skills in the job titles of Desktop Publisher, Offset press Operator, Preflight Specialist, Scanner Operator, and Application Specialist. The computer software we give instruction in is Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. Each of these is currently being used in the industry. Intermediate and advanced courses in these areas allow for greater skill development for both students and employed members of the printing/publishing industry.

PRINTING PREPRESS AND PRODUCTION
Certificate

Electronic production has become the standard today for creation of newsletters, forms, brochures, books, magazines, flyers, letters and documents of varied subjects. The combined skills learned give the student a needed skill set to succeed in the industry.

Semester I
GRPH1459
Object Oriented Computer Graphics 4
ARTC1413
Digital Publishing I2 4
+GRPH1409
Press Operations I 4



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12
Semester II
+GRPH1494
Special Topics in Printing Press Operator 4
+ARTC2413
Digital Publishing II3 4
ARTC1402
Digital Imaging I4 4



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12
Semester III
+GRPH1457
Digital Imaging II OR 4
+GRPH2441
Electronic Publishing III
+GRPH1432
Electronic Imaging System 4
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Restricted Elective1 4



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12
Semester IV



Restricted Elective1 4
+#GRPH2436
Prepress Techniques 4



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8





TOTALS
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1 Select from the following electives: IMED 1416, IMED 1445, PHTC 1449, PHTC 1445, PHTC 2445, PHTC 2449.
2 Formerly GRPH 1422 or ARTC 1313.
3 Formerly GRPH 1454 or ARTC 2313.
4 Formerly GRPH 1425 or ARTC 2305.


PRINTING & DESKTOP PUBLISHING PRODUCTION
Associate of Applied Science Degree

Semester I
ARTC1413
Digital Publishing I6 4



Oral Communications2 3
+


Mathematics1 3



Social and Behavioral Science4 3
GRPH1459
Object Oriented Computer Graphics 4



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17
Semester II
+GRPH1409
Press Operations I 4
+ARTC2413
Digital Publishing II7 4
ARTC1402
Digital Imaging I8 4
ENGL1301 English Composition I 3



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15
Semester III
+GRPH2436
Prepress Techniques 4
+GRPH2441
Electronic Publishing III 4
+GRPH1457
Digital Imaging II 4



Restricted Elective5 4



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16
Semester IV



Restricted Elective5 4
+GRPH1494
Special Topics in Printing Press Operator 4
+GRPH1432
Electronic Imaging System 4
+


Humanities/Fine Arts3 3
+#GRPH1367
Practicum -- Graphic & Printing Equipment Operator 3



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18





TOTALS
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1 Select any Math course from Computation Skills section of the General Education Course List.
2 Select any Speech course from Communications section of the General Education Course List.
3 Select from the following Humanities and Fine Art courses: ARTS 1301, ARTS 1303, ARTS 1304, HUMA 1301, HUMA 1315.
4 Select from Social Behavioral Science section of the General Education Course List.
5 Select from the following electives: IMED 1416, IMED 1445, PHTC 1449, PHTC 1445, PHTC 2445, PHTC 2449.
6 Formerly GRPH 1422 or ARTC 1313.
7 Formerly GRPH 1454 or ARTC 2313.
8 Formerly GRPH 1425 or ARTC 2305.


Degree Plans updated October 06, 2003 11:35am
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