CGA2022 TYPOGRAPHY
3 Credit Hours
Student Level:
This course is open to students on the college level in either the freshman or the sophomore year.
Catalog Description:
CGA2022 - Typography (3 hrs.)
This course is designed to introduce the fundamentals of typography. Emphasis is on creative manipulation of letterforms as design elements and their impact on the message communicated by the text and overall design. Students will use Adobe graphic and page layout software to control and enhance type.
Course Classification:
Lecture
Prerequisites:
Grade of C or better in Design Software (CGA2013) or Computer Illustration (Illustrator) (CGA2012) or instructor approval.
Controlling Purpose:
This course is designed to introduce the fundamentals of typography. Emphasis is on creative manipulation of letterforms as design elements and their impact on the message communicated by the text and the overall design. Use of graphic and page layout software to control and enhance type.
Learner Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, the student will:
1. Develop an awareness of the structure and visual impact of letterforms
2. Use letterforms as design elements in image composition
3. Fit copy in type-centric layouts
4. Analyze type as form and texture in text and headlines
5. Utilize computer graphics applications and traditional techniques to manipulate letterforms
6. Utilize hierarchy and grids in typographic layouts
7. Identify the anatomical parts of letterforms
8. Classify the different forms of typefaces
9. Identify key moments in the history of typography
Unit Outcomes for Criterion Based Evaluation:
The following outline defines the minimum core content not including the final examination period. Instructors may add other material as time allows.
UNIT 1: The Fundamentals of Typography
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will identify and utilize the fundamentals of typography
- Identify anatomical parts of letterforms
- Identify and compare the similarities and differences between the major type classifications
- Identify font families
- Utilize type specifications - alignment, leading, kerning, tracking, appropriate line length
- Describe and utilize the aesthetics of type - shape, size, weight, tone, color, patterns, texture
UNIT 2: Creative Use of Type in Design
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will be able to creatively utilize type
- Identify and differentiate legibility and readability
- Understand the emotional and intellectual impact of typefaces and typesetting on the viewer
- Establish a hierarchy of information using type
- Communicate information and evoke emotion using only typography
- Use type and its characteristics to guide movement through a composition
- Create creative artistic and informational designs using typography
- Utilize grids to align and give structure to typographic designs
UNIT 3: The History and Legacy of Typography
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will be to able identify key moments in the history of typography
- Identify key innovators and innovations in typography
- Identify major eras in the evolution of type
- Identify current typographic trends
Projects Required:
The course will include a range of typographic design projects that will demonstrate competency of the above techniques. For an updated description of these projects, refer to the course syllabus.
Textbook:
Contact Bookstore for current textbook.
Materials/Equipment Required:
- Access to Adobe design software (face to face sections of the class will use software already installed in the graphic design computer lab)
- A method to save and back-up work such as a flash drive, external hard drive, or access to an online cloud storage service
- A sketchbook and drawing implements, including pencils, black pens, markers, colored pencils, etc.
- Tools to mount printed artwork, which may include: a ruler, x-acto knife, utility knife, spray adhesive, and mat board.
A specific list of supplies can be found in the course syllabus.
Attendance Policy:
Students should adhere to the attendance policy outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Grading Policy:
The grading policy will be outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Maximum class size:
Based on classroom occupancy
Course Time Frame:
The U.S. Department of Education, Higher Learning Commission and the Kansas Board of Regents define credit hour and have specific regulations that the college must follow when developing, teaching and assessing the educational aspects of the college. A credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally-established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester hour of credit or an equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time. The number of semester hours of credit allowed for each distance education or blended hybrid courses shall be assigned by the college based on the amount of time needed to achieve the same course outcomes in a purely face-to-face format.
Refer to the following policies:
402.00 Academic Code of Conduct
263.00 Student Appeal of Course Grades
403.00 Student Code of Conduct
Disability Services Program:
Cowley College, in recognition of state and federal laws, will accommodate a student with a documented disability. If a student has a disability which may impact work in this class and which requires accommodations, contact the Disability Services Coordinator.
Updated 6/1/2019
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