2024-2025 Student Catalog 
    
    Sep 07, 2024  
2024-2025 Student Catalog

Course Addendum


Course Addendum

 

New Course - Effective Fall 2024

ART 131 - Digital Design, 3 Cr.

Contact Hours Per Week: 6 Lab.

Digital Design covers the creation and manipulation of visual content using a range of software tools to communicate ideas, concepts, and information effectively across a range of digital platforms. Through a combination of lectures, research, hands-on projects, and group critique, students will learn the fundamentals of graphic design, composition, digital imaging, typography, and layout for digital display. Projects will emphasize the application of core design principles to modern digital practices using industry-standard software. By the end of the course, students will have experience problem-solving content creation to generate visually compelling designs, giving them the foundational knowledge for a range of careers in graphic design, digital media, and web design.

 

New Course - Effective Fall 2024

MUS 175, 176, 275, 276 - Applied Music Lessons I - IV, 1 Cr.

Contact Hours Per Week: 1 Lec.

This course is for first semester music students.  Credit will be granted for the individual study of voice or instrument.  Students will need to attend weekly 1-hour individual music lessons.  Lessons will be scheduled the first week of the semester based on student and teacher availability.  Primary topics with include history of the student’s instrument, musicianship, technique, performance practice, scales, arpeggios, and repertoire.

 

Course Pre-requisite Change - Effective Fall 2024

BUS 229 - Business Communications

Contact Hours Per Week: 3 Lec.

This course will familiarize the study of written and oral communication skills for business and the professions.  Course content will include writing fundamentals (grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure); letter and report formatting; letter, memo and report writing; oral presentations; employment strategies; and communication psychology.  (Usually offered Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters.)

Prerequisites:  None