Student Handbook and Catalog 2021-22 V2

130 | Curriculum
Digital Media Design
While you watch commercials, do you think to yourself, "I could do
that better"? When you pass by a billboard, do you say to yourself,
"I can't even read that"? In the Digital Media Design program, our
goal is to inspire and teach a new generation of media artists how
to be employable in the print, photography, videography and web
design industries. We'll show you the techniques necessary to
produce quality media design, and equip you with tools to grow
as creative thinkers and innovators. Students in this program will
manipulate sound, still images, 3-D images, animations, UXUI and
digital video on computers. This program will provide training
in desktop publishing, painting, drawing, color correction, solids
modeling, animation, sound editing, nonlinear video editing web,
page creating, photography, 3-D printing, marking and design.
Digital Media Design is a Performance-Based Education (PBE)
program.
Digital Media Design is 100% online. Students will be required to
take the Student Online Learning Orientation course (SOLO 100).
First-Year Seminar Requirement
Students are required to enroll in the First Year Seminar course,
TSTC 1102, in their first semester attending TSTC unless they
have completed more than 24 credit hours. Please see detailed
information regarding the course and exemptions in the Advising
section under First Year Seminar course.
Digital Media Design
Associate of Applied Science
Semester 1
Credits
ARTC 1317 Design Communication I 3
ARTC 1327 Typography 3
GRPH 1359 Vector Graphics for Production 3
ENGL 1301 Composition I 3
ENGL 2311 or Technical & Business Writing
Semester Totals 12
Semester 2
Credits
ARTC 1302 Digital Imaging I 3
ARTC 2347 Design Communication II 1 3
PHTC 1311 Fundamentals of Photography 2 3
ACGM X3XX Gen Ed Math/Natural Science Elective 3
Semester Totals 12
Semester 3
Credits
ARTC 1313 Digital Publishing I 3 3
ARTC 2305 Digital Imaging II 4 3
ARTV 1351 Digital Video 3
ACGM X3XX Gen Ed Humanities/Fine Arts Elective 3
Semester Totals 12
Semester 4
Credits
ARTV 2341 Advanced Digital Video 5 3
IMED 1341 Interface Design 3
MRKG 2349 Advertising and Sales Promotion 6 3
ARTV 1345 or 3-D Modeling and Rendering I 7
ACGM X3XX Gen Ed Social/Behavioral Science Elective 3
Semester Totals 12
Semester 5
Credits
ARTC 2335 Portfolio Development for Graphic Design 3
IMED 1316 Web Design I 8 3
IMED 1345 Interactive Digital Media I 9 3
ACGM X3XX Gen Ed Elective 3
Semester Totals 12
Program Totals 60
Capstone Course(s):
ARTC 2335 - Portfolio Development for Graphic Design
Prerequisites
1
ARTC 1317
2
ARTC 1302 (Prerequisite or Corequisite)
3
AARTC 1302 or ARTC 1305
4,6,7
ARTC 1302
5
ARTV 1351
8
ITSE 1311 or ARTC 1302 (Prerequisite or Corequisite)
9
IMED 1341
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