Westwood College offers an Associate Degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia. This degree would qualify you for a position as an Advertising and Design Coordinator, Graphic Designer, Graphic Artist, Graphic and Web Designer or Production Manager. Westwood asserts that the Graphic Design degree could be completed in as little as 3 years. Westwood does offer the opportunity to take Graphic Design classes in a physical classroom at one of their 6 locations (California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Texas, and Virginia).
All of the Graphic Design classes can be completed online, but the college also offers the opportunity to take some classes online and some in the classroom—you have the option to mix traditional classroom experiences with the convenience of online classes. This online Graphic Design Associate Degree is completed in 107 credit hours. The tuition is $4,435 per term, and the degree online generally takes 8 terms.
The Graphic Design degree is based on a strong foundation of drawing, color, basic design, and leading industry software. The Graphic Design classes approach this degree from the perspective of communication through type, photography or illustration. The coursework for this degree includes technical and general education classes such as Introduction to Graphic Design, Digital Illustration, Digital Layout, Image Editing, 3D Modeling and Animation, Web Page Design, Advanced Design Portfolio Review, and Multimedia: Audio-Video.
Westwood College’s Associate Degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia will prepare you for Adobe InDesign CS4, Illustrator CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, and Photoshop CS4 certifications. These certifications will be a major help in advancing your career as a Graphic Designer! This degree will enable you to create layouts and illustration in industry-standard software. You will understand, design and create web sites, create and animate virtual objects in a 3D environment, and create and edit video presentations.
As a Graphic and Web Designer, you will analyze and plan the overall design of a web page. As an Advertising and Design Coordinator you would be able to proof copy, press checkfiles, compress and optimize images, organize advertising for print, and coordinate scheduling or promotions.
As a Graphic Designer or Graphic Artist, this online degree would teach you to plan, analyze and create visual solutions to communications problems. You would convey a message effectively through color, type, illustration, photography, or animation, using various print and layout techniques.
