College Credit Course Description: GRA 1821

GRA 1821 Desktop Publishing for Graphic Design — 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: GRA 1800 or Macintosh experience. This course is designed to give graphic design and graphic arts students an understanding of desktop publishing using a page layout application. Students will import text and graphics from other programs and sources (e.g., scanned images and object oriented draw programs) and work with color trapping and separation. Students will demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary appropriate to desktop publishing. Software used is QuarkXpress. Four contact hours: three lecture hours, one laboratory hour.