grapic design ceritficate?

[stressn]

Required Courses
Total 169 hours

Acrylics: Beginning or Oil Painting:
Intro & Continuing or Watercolor: Beginning 24 hours
Color Theory 15 hours
Composition and Typography 16 hours
Design Principles 12 hours
Developing Your Portfolio 7 hours
Drawing: Beginning 30 hours
Illustrator CS 2.0 14 hours
InDesign CS 2.0 14 hours
Pre-press Processes and Techniques: Introduction 9 hours
Photoshop CS 2.0 – Level 1 14 hours
Photoshop CS 2.0– Level 2 14 hours

Elective Courses
At least 35 hours

Animation for Games and Movies (Using Maya) 20 hours
Black & White Photography Level 1 30 hours
Cascading Style Sheets Level 1 14 hours
Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 8 hours
Designing Effective Websites 8 hours
Digital Photography: An Introduction 15 hours
DreamWeaver 8 - Level 1 8 hours
Figure Studies 24 hours
Fireworks 8 8 hours
Flash 8 – Level 1 18 hours
XHTML – Level 1 8 hours
XHTML – Level 2 14 hours

i am signing up for this for this summer,it last about a year and i wanted to see if some of yall think this would be a good start for me cause some of yall
got some dope shyt out..

 

[AllCity Cinemas]

unless your looking to get a job at a firm and not freelance cd work, its pretty much useless

 

[stressn]

yeah i am hoping to do more freelance work over working in a firm..any suggestions on other certificates/classes?

 

[CHAPO GUZMAN]

take what you think you need.. like photoshop classes.. just to learn the shortcuts, ins and outs.. otherwise learning on your own by fuckin with photoshop could be a while.

 

[underground]

unless your looking to get a job at a firm and not freelance cd work, its pretty much useless

i agree...i got it and its been pretty useless lol. im bout to start applying for jobs tho i think.

 

[stressn]

dayum, yall serious? its a good way to learn what i want to know though, right?and at least i'll have a certificate to add to the good ol g.e.d.

 

[Kavie]

I'm nowhere near as good as some of the people who post here, but 80% of what I was gonna learn in a class I was gonna take I learned on my own with a few books.

 

[Mr. Samos]

Required Courses
Total 169 hours

Acrylics: Beginning or Oil Painting:
Intro & Continuing or Watercolor: Beginning 24 hours
Color Theory 15 hours
Composition and Typography 16 hours
Design Principles 12 hours
Developing Your Portfolio 7 hours
Drawing: Beginning 30 hours
Illustrator CS 2.0 14 hours
InDesign CS 2.0 14 hours
Pre-press Processes and Techniques: Introduction 9 hours
Photoshop CS 2.0 – Level 1 14 hours
Photoshop CS 2.0– Level 2 14 hours

Elective Courses
At least 35 hours

Animation for Games and Movies (Using Maya) 20 hours
Black & White Photography Level 1 30 hours
Cascading Style Sheets Level 1 14 hours
Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 8 hours
Designing Effective Websites 8 hours
Digital Photography: An Introduction 15 hours
DreamWeaver 8 - Level 1 8 hours
Figure Studies 24 hours
Fireworks 8 8 hours
Flash 8 – Level 1 18 hours
XHTML – Level 1 8 hours
XHTML – Level 2 14 hours

i am signing up for this for this summer,it last about a year and i wanted to see if some of yall think this would be a good start for me cause some of yall
got some dope shyt out..

It's really not that indepth if you look at the amount of hours but it will give you insight into the dynamics of the industry, with the electives most of it looks like primer but who knows you might really connect with some of those courses and choose to continue more on some of them later on, others you might not connect with, it will give you an idea of your strengths and what your passion is and in the end a certificate to add to your resume.

A lot of firms are specific with the skills they need, your course covers a lot of the demand, even though it's not indepth it may help you land more jobs.

It's not going to make you develop "dope" graphics or whatever, that will take time and a development of your own, through persistence and by teaching yourself. But it will make you informed and more professional, if you can excel on your own with graphic design, and apply what you learn in school to that, you should be well on your way to a career.

 

[stressn]

It's not going to make you develop "dope" graphics or whatever, that will take time and a development of your own, through persistence and by teaching yourself. But it will make you informed and more professional, if you can excel on your own with graphic design, and apply what you learn in school to that, you should be well on your way to a career.

thanks for taking the time to write, this is exactly what i was hoping to gain from this..