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Course Outline

• Orientation to desktop publishing: from computer to newsstand
• Basic typography and graphic design principles
• Preparing images for printing
• Publication design
• Basic HTML and web design
• Image processing for the WWW
• Online publication formats
• Defining a production workflow for online publication

The trimester will be divided into two parts, the first devoted to print production and the second to web production.

Requirements

• Midterm project: Designing a magazine or newsletter. Involves a grid system defined and applied to five sample pages.
• Final project - individual: The prototype for a news-oriented community web site, consisting of a design brief (submitted as hardcopy, with printouts of sample pages appended) and the prototype itself, accessible on the WWW.
• Final project - class: A live Webcast. Coverage of an event by groups from various remote locations over a one-week period.
• Exercises and homework, usually applications of the current lesson, and building towards the major projects (see above). The print exercises are to be compiled in a folder and submitted on midterm exam day. The WWW exercises are to be compiled on a Web site, the URL of which will be e-mailed to the professor before finals week.
• Quizzes, both short and long, both announced and unannounced, and a Midterm Exam.
  
  
• Deadlines are strictly enforced.
• Students are expected to participate actively in all class discussions, do the assigned work and observe all rules and regulations, especially those pertaining to the use of the Desktop Laboratory.
• Failure to submit the midterm or the final project will automatically result in a Final grade of 0.0.