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Graphic Design & Digital Media Curriculum

Thanks to our Upside-Down Curriculum, you to begin taking your Graphic Design & Digital Media classes beginning in your first semester. By the time you finish your first year, you will have taken upward of five courses related to your major.

Champlain has great opportunities to intern at internationally known companies, like Jager DiPaolo Kemp, Burton, Rome Snowboard Design, or Select Design, among many other organizations-including those in the not-for-profit sector.

Champlain's study abroad program is built right into the major so you can spend a semester abroad without getting behind on required courses.

Graphic Design and Digital Media Curriculum 2013-14

First Year

First Semester
Concepts of the Self (COR 110)
Rhetoric I (COR 115)
Form & Color (GDD 100)
Art History (ART 120)
Intro to Drawing (ART 110)

Second Semester
Concepts of Community (COR 120)
Rhetoric II (COR 125)
Photography for Design I (GDD 115)
Typography I (GDD 201)
Math Elective

Second Year

First Semester
Choose 200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Aesthetic Expressions (COR 220)
Design and Communication (GDD 200)
Publication Design I (GDD 205)
Form and Space (GDD 202) OR Form in Motion (GDD 203)

Second Semester
Choose 200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Choose 200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Math Elective (MTH XXX)
Web Design I (GDD 206)
Visual Creativity & Meaning (GDD 220)

Third Year

First Semester
Global Studies I: Technology & Development (COR 310)
Global Studies II: Human Rights (COR 320)
Advanced Typography (GDD 301)
Publication Design II (GDD 305) OR Web Design II (GDD 306)

Second Semester
International Cultural Studies (COR 330)
International Cultural Studies (COR 330)
Projects in Graphic Design I (GDD 300)
Program Elective (ART of GDD Studio) (GDD XXX)
Natural Science Elective with Lab (SCI XXX)

Fourth Year

First Semester
College Capstone (CCC 410)
Projects in Graphic Design II (GDD 400)
Program Elective (ART or GDD Studio) (GDD XXX)
General Elective

Second Semester
Senior Portfolio in Graphic Design (GDD 401)
Graphic Design Business Practice (GDD 440) OR Apprenticeship in Graphic Design (GDD 490)
Program Elective (ART or GDD Studio) (GDD XXX)
Program Elective (ART or GDD Studio) (GDD XXX)
General Elective