Bachelor in Graphic Design

faculty of Fine Arts - Department of Fine and Applied arts

Description

The program aims to graduate an artist and designer who can participate in design and printmaking production processes of all kinds, and has the ability to respond to the requirements of the environment and society and develop scientific methods appropriate to print production processes. Through his studies in the program, the student acquires many cognitive and scientific skills that make him qualified and able to meet the needs of the labor market in the field of specialization.

Objectives

  • Qualify the student as a designer who can participate in the design and print production processes of all kinds.
  • A graduate with the ability to respond to the requirements of the environment and society and to develop appropriate scientific methods for print production processes.
  •   Acquisition of skills to deal with manual printing problems
  • Raising the professional and scientific level of workers in the fields of graphics.
  • Conducting research and studies in the fields of specialization.
  • Exchanging experiences and information with local and international educational and cultural bodies and institutions.
  • Providing technical advice in the various fields of specialization and contributing to the development and support of the college's fields of work to serve the environment and society.

Outcomes

  • Learn about graphic art schools, their most important activities, and their most famous artists.
  • To be able to understand the functional, aesthetic and cultural aspect in defining the visual identity of graphic design.
  • Identify the stages of development of graphic art, understand its techniques and methods, and their connection to the technical and scientific development of the field of graphic art.
  • Learn English terminology in the field of design and printing.
  • Describes the peculiarities and advantages of graphic art and its differences.
  • That the student acquire sufficient knowledge about the culture of trademarks
  • An ability to analyze scientific concepts and theories of the visual arts and apply them during study
  •   The ability to criticize and read the analytical work of art
  • Gaining artistic and aesthetic taste to evaluate and implement artistic and creative works
  • The ability to understand the meanings of visual symbols
  • To apply scientific methods in the production and implementation of artwork in the field of graphic art
  • The ability to compare similarities and differences in defining visual identity between peoples' cultures.
  • The ability to discuss, clarify and define the problem to find solutions for graphic design
  • Creative thinking in dealing with the new technology to employ contemporary methods
  • The ability to be able to use the tools and materials used to produce a work of art in various means of graphic art
  • The ability to identify weaknesses and defects in operational steps
  • The student has the ability to link theory with practice

Certificate Rewarded

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design

Entry Reuirements

  • The student must have obtained a high school diploma with a rate of no less than (65%), sixty-five percent of the total marks in all departments, provided that the prescribed entrance exams are taken.
  • To be able to pursue studies in his desired major.
  • Foreign students are accepted at their own expense in accordance with the provisions of the study and examination regulations, and that the applicant fulfills other admission requirements, and the student must pass the entrance examination.

Study Plan

The Bachelor in Graphic Design prepares students to qualify for Bachelor in Graphic Design. The student studies several subjects which have been carefully chosen in this major to cover its different aspects.

It comprises 8 Semesters of study, in which the student will study a total of 133 units, which include 10 units of general subjects, and 116 major units, 3 of elective units. In addition to a final project in the student's major.

Study plan for this program is shown below:

1st Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
AFA 131 Engineering drawing 02 General +

The course deals with the principles of engineering drawing, its tools and terminology, engineering operations, vertical projection, deduction of projections, choosing suitable projections for design drawings, proportionality between shapes, equality in measurement and size between a group of objects (isometric). Projective representation of objects, methods of preparing drawings for interior design projects and understanding what is known from them.How to deal and apply these engineering processes, vertical projection, deduce the projections with all the plans used in the interior design and the determinants of the interior architecture of projections, facades and sectors and show them correctly and clearlyWhich gives luster in all lines and colors on the architectural and interior plans.

AFA 123 The foundations of design 02 General +

In this course, the student will be introduced to the elements of design (point, line, shape,...etc.) and will also be aware of the different principles and values ​​of design (balance, rhythm, unity,...etc.). He will recognize the value of the building unit of shapes in design module The course is also concerned with developing the skills of simplification, abstraction, and modification of natural and unnatural forms through analyzing their plastic construction and linking these values ​​and applying them to interior design.

GS123 E 02 University requirement +

GS122 02 General +

AFA122 free drawing 02 General +

The course deals with the principles of engineering drawing, its tools and terminology, engineering operations, vertical projection, deduction of projections, choosing suitable projections for design drawings, proportionality between shapes, equality in measurement and size between a group of objects (isometric). Projective representation of objects, methods of preparing drawings for interior design projects and understanding what is known from them.How to deal and apply these engineering processes, vertical projection, deduce the projections with all the plans used in the interior design and the determinants of the interior architecture of projections, facades and sectors and show them correctly and clearlyWhich gives luster in all lines and colors on the architectural and interior plans.

GS121 02 University requirement +

2nd Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
VSA132 Photography 1 03 General +

GS225 02 General +

GS 224 A 02 University requirement +

AFA 224 02 not defined +

AFA229 general photography 03 General +

3rd Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
DP 201 Graphic Composition 1 02 Compulsory +

DP203 free drawing 02 Compulsory AFA122 +

DP306 03 Elective DP309 +

DP222 Graphic Communication Design1 (Branding Design) 03 Compulsory AFA123 +

Course short description: The course includes identifying the basic concepts of theories of visual communication, schools of graphic design and their functions, providing the student with the foundations and concepts of graphic visual forms through schools of psychology in visual perception, ensuring the student's ease of circulation of knowledge and information and the ability to convert it into data Visual to be employed in the right place, active participation in educating society through image culture.Description of the practical part (Laboratory projects): Understanding the dimensions, defects, and problems of visual messages in terms of the idea, design, implementation technique, and aesthetic components, providing the student with visual identity identification skills for logo and symbol design.

DP215 specialty history 02 Compulsory +

4th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
DP310 Etching 03 Compulsory +

AFA323 History of medieval art 02 General AFA227 +

This course is considered one of the general academic courses that the student should study within the study plan of the art education program, and it is part of the courses that cover the historical stages of the development of the arts. Through this course, the student will be able to understand the technical terms related to this course, and the student will be able to distinguish between the arts of this era and other eras in the field of arts and architecture. Influential economic studies in the eras that followed the Middle Ages, such as the Gothic period, and the Romanesque arts, with a study of all types of arts and the architecture of palaces, buildings, and churches built in that historical period.

DP221 Printed character design 02 Compulsory +

DP207 Monotype 02 Compulsory +

DP202 Graphic Composition II 02 Compulsory AFA123 DP 201 DP201 +

DP217 Digital Design Programs I (Photoshop) 02 Compulsory +

5th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
DP413 Relief printing 03 Compulsory DP306 +

AFA 226 Art Terms 02 General +

AFA 320 02 University requirement +

DP 328 Textile printing 03 Compulsory +

DP327 Monotype 02 Compulsory DP207 +

DP223 Graphic communication design ll 03 Compulsory DP222 +

6th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
DP318 Screen printing 03 Compulsory DP202 +

DP311 aquatint 03 Compulsory DP310 +

AFA324 ART history in the Renaissance 02 General +

The course aims to enable the student to know what is related to each historical stage

DP205 free drawing 02 Compulsory DP204 +

DP224 Graphic Communication Design III (Annual Calendar Design) 03 Compulsory DP223 +

7th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
DP317 Digital Design Software II (Illustrator) 02 Compulsory DP217 +

Course short description: This course aims to identify images consisting of a group of vectors and intersecting points that make up the color space of a Vector image, through the use of the Illustrator program and applying that to various designs.Description of the practical part (Laboratory projects): Providing the student with computer design skills through simplification, modification, deletion, addition and storage, designing backgrounds, wrapping paper and forming letters.

DP419 Screen printing II 03 Compulsory DP318 +

DP426 Graphics industry 03 Compulsory +

AFA 425 Modern Art History 02 General +

8th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
DP458 Ceramic printing 03 Compulsory DP413 +

DP499 04 Compulsory +

CLA 498 selected course 03 General +