Typographics III

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Develop typographic vocabulary and historical perspective
• Refine craft, attention to detail, and digital skills
• Critique readability in text as a form of user experience.
• Evaluate typography’s role in design and its critical role in effective (or ineffective) communication.
• Demonstrate knowledge of design software
• Demonstrate a professional-level proficiency using Adobe InDesign—the industry standard for layout and page design software.
• Design highly readable texts for optimal user experience.
• Organize, manage, and archive project assets and progressive iterations of digital design files in a logical and systematic manner.
• Manage multiple projects and remain flexible and open through iterative practice (multiple revisions).
• Design, formulate, and organize micro-typography with sufficient skill to teach others what you have learned in this course!
• Strengthen critical-thinking, research, presentation, and collaboration skills
• Synthesize all your class experiences in the writing, editing, design, typesetting, printing, and publication of your own book.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Participation, assignments, and discussions	Approximately 400 points

There are approximately 400 available points based on earned credit for participation, assignments, and discussions. Standard percentages apply: 90 – 100 % = A; 80 – 89 % = B; 70 – 79 % = C,; 60 – 69 % = D; < 60 % = F. This class uses the + ⁄ − system.

Attendance/Participation:

Participation (25% of total grade)

Participation is worth a total of 100 points. Participation includes attendance and engagement during class meetings.

Ultimately, this is a subjective measure of your overall level of engagement with the course experiences, including your attention and contribution to discussions and peer review opportunities; responsiveness to input on your work from instructor, peers, and guests; and the overarching curiosity, creativity, motivation, and rigor that attend design practice and process.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• A computer with an internet connection, a camera, and audio
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Teams