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Bachelor in Graphic and Digital Design (BA) - UNIC
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Bachelor in Graphic and Digital Design (BA) - UNIC

University of Nicosia
NicosiaCyprus
On campus
Full-time
€8,940.00€8,046.00/year
 1126 Points
Duration
4 Years
Language
English
Apply date
Sep 2024

Program Description

The bachelor in Graphic and Digital Design (BA) aims to develop students’ communication, critical thinking, and creative skills, cultivate their aesthetic criteria, and help them establish a strong visual vocabulary to successfully address and solve everyday design problems.

The graphic design field is developing rapidly with the help of digital tools; continuous technological advancements create new challenges and opportunities for the modern graphic designer.

Graphic language, through images and texts, largely determines the everyday lives of people all over the world. Newspapers and textbooks, product packaging and promotional posters, signage in malls and roads, websites, and mobile applications are just a few examples of visual communication design.

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Learning Outcomes

  • Critically discuss concepts, principles and theories relating to the history and theory of the broad field of visual communication.
  • Employ the fundamental design principles and theories that underpin the implementation of different projects in areas such as: advertising and social media design, brand identity design, information design, packaging and sustainable design, publications design, typography and type design, art and illustration for graphic design, motion graphic design, web design, and print production.
  • Apply a range of critical enquiry and visual investigation strategies in order to evaluate problems and develop innovative design solutions.
  • Design and execute an independent research project from the problem recognition stage through to the evaluation and appraisal of findings.
  • Create design work to a professional standard utilising software tools and taking into consideration the production constraints discussed in the programme.
  • Organise a portfolio of work that demonstrates their skills and competences and corresponds to the quality standards of the international and European graphic design industry.
  • Operate effectively in an interdisciplinary team applying the interpersonal skills acquired through the course’s practical projects.
  • Express their work in oral and written form using the appropriate terminology in the subject area.
  • Identify the details of the business functions in the graphic design environment such as marketing, costing, and estimating.
  • Appraise themselves as members of a community whose people with special needs and/or awareness of social issues can benefit from their skills.
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Curriculum

Year 1

Semester 1

Fundamentals of Drawing

Fundamentals of 2D Design

Photography I

Introduction to Multimedia

English Composition

Semester 2

History of Art

Introduction to Typography

Fundamentals of 3D Design

Interactive Design for Social Media

Process and Project Based Art Practice

Year 2

Semester 3

Graphic Design

Digital Imaging

Typography and Graphic Communication

Storyboarding and 2D Animation

Video Production

Semester 4

Figure Drawing

Editorial Design

Production Methods for Graphic Design

Photography in the Digital World

Programming Principles

Year 3

Semester 5

Design for Packaging

Publishing

Illustration

Interface Design and Development

Business and Professional Communication

Semester 6

Graphic Design for Social and Commercial Advertising

Information Design

Visual Literacy

Photography II

General Psychology I

Year 4

Semester 7

Research Methodologies in Design

History of Graphic Communication

Graphic Design Work Placement

3D Modeling and Animation

Marketing

Semester 8

Negotiated Project in Graphic Design

Advanced Screen Typography

Graphic Communication Final Project

Printmaking

Ethics

Jobs - Careers

  • Print And Electronic Publishing (Books, Magazines, Newspapers)
  • Information Design
  • Branding and Advertising
  • Packaging
  • Print Production Management
  • Digital And Online Visual Design Applications
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