Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator: Beginning-to-Intermediate Skill Building

Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator: Beginning-to-Intermediate Skill Building is an in-person, 4-credit, Saturday MacLab computer-studio intensive course. Students in this course can expect to achieve beginning to intermediate technical competency in utilizing Adobe’s InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator design software applications through in-person instruction, team design projects, assignments, and instructor support. In-class instruction will be supplemented by online video tutorial modules from LinkedIn Learning. 

Students will assemble a final web portfolio for this course that demonstrates their technical competencies in Adobe design applications, design team projects, and assignments. 

All students will receive and submit course assignments on Canvas following weekly submission deadlines. The first session (June 29) will be a remote orientation to modules that will prepare students for the work ahead, and, beginning July 6, students will participate in 5 hours of in-person instruction and project work on Saturdays from 11am to 4pm and should expect to spend an additional 6-8 hours outside of class time per week on coursework.

Note: Students who register for this first session summer course can also register for the second summer session remote home-studio intensive 4 credit course, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator: Beginning-to-Advanced Skill Building — Individual Projects, where students either gain or build on foundational knowledge in Adobe digital design software through individual project-based work. Students in this course will complete a larger scale multi-asset individual digital design project of their own choosing.