Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Desktop Publishing
  • Unit Code

    DES2103
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit will investigate the history of print and typography and current developments in desktop publishing. Students will examine a range of technical issues associated with DTP including publication styles, layout, type forms, colour, image and text. Students will be expected to demonstrate a technical understanding of desktop publishing and produce commercially printable documents from a brief.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Define common terms associated with DTP, print, print colour and type.
  2. Discuss historical and current developments in printing technology, layout/design styles and typography.
  3. Identify differences between, and uses of common typographic styles and families.
  4. Produce documents to industry standards that demonstrate an appropriate usage of spatial layout (e.g. format, image, colour and type).
  5. Use type and layout to express design ideas.

Unit Content

  1. Design layout research journals.
  2. History of print and type.
  3. Preparing digital files for printing.
  4. Publication layout and typography research skills.
  5. Selecting appropriate typefaces and layout.
  6. Techniques of publication layout design and typography.
  7. The tools and materials of print graphic design.
  8. Using DTP applications.
  9. Visual communication and design processes.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and Seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseExercises30%
ProjectProject 130%
ProjectProject 230%
JournalWork Journal10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Desktop Publishing
  • Unit Code

    DES2103
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit will investigate the history of print and typography and current developments in desktop publishing. Students will examine a range of technical issues associated with DTP including publication styles, layout, type forms, colour, image and text. Students will be expected to demonstrate a technical understanding of desktop publishing and produce commercially printable documents from a brief.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Define common terms associated with DTP, print, print colour and type.
  2. Discuss historical and current developments in printing technology, layout/design styles and typography.
  3. Identify differences between, and uses of common typographic styles and families.
  4. Produce documents to industry standards that demonstrate an appropriate usage of spatial layout (e.g. format, image, colour and type).
  5. Use type and layout to express design ideas.

Unit Content

  1. Design layout research journals.
  2. History of print and type.
  3. Preparing digital files for printing.
  4. Publication layout and typography research skills.
  5. Selecting appropriate typefaces and layout.
  6. Techniques of publication layout design and typography.
  7. The tools and materials of print graphic design.
  8. Using DTP applications.
  9. Visual communication and design processes.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and Seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseExercises30%
ProjectProject 130%
ProjectProject 230%
JournalWork Journal10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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