Graphic Design Minor
Perfect your technical skills while learning how design impacts messaging and vice versa. Explore the latest digital-image software and learn how to create professional communication materials.
Why Minor in Graphic Design?
Do you want to build a career that encourages creativity and combines art, communication, and problem-solving? Graphic Design might be the perfect complement to your major.
With a minor in Graphic Design, you’ll perfect your technical skills while learning how design impacts messaging and vice versa. You’ll explore the latest digital-image software in our Image Technology Course and learn how to create communication materials, like brochures and posters, in Design Solutions.
Champlain offers comprehensive professional preparation; you’ll learn what it’s like to collaborate with visual communication designers, marketers, and other team members to create a successful product.
Upon completion of this minor, you’ll be able to:
- Recognize and apply aesthetic principles within non-original and original works, respectively.
- Determine the mode(s) of production required to achieve a specific product and to demonstrate level-appropriate mastery of the skills, manual and/or digital, necessary to achieve those products.
- Display a professional demeanor in managing time, materials, and information, as it reveals motivation, attitude, and work ethic.
- Demonstrate the synthesis of learning from disparate fields into a tangibly synergistic form.
Courses in the Graphic Design Minor
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