CMN 222 – WordPress + Web Design

Through this workshop, you’ll gain an understanding of the basics of how websites work, and how that relates to WordPress, and creating and maintaining a modern website. We’ll go through steps of design considerations to take as you’re putting together your layout and site map. Then onto creating a wireframe, and evolving that into a prototype of your website. We’ll finish with covering how to turn that prototype into an actual website, using WordPress to keep it all organized and under control.

CMN 448 – Design + Illustration Tools

This course introduces students to the study of visual communication. Students will examine the ways visual images persuade us to act, think, and feel, and will also learn vocabulary, concepts, and histories related to visual meaning-making. Students will focus on the ways images, seeing, and being seen influence the ways we experience the world within professional and social contexts and how visual images and image-making manipulate and become manipulated by a surrounding visual culture.

CMN 210 – Text, Image, and Sound

While they can be intimidating tools to start with, Photoshop, Audition, and Premiere Pro are a powerful set of tools that can help you to communicate your ideas in new and engaging ways. Over the course of these workshops you’ll be introduced to the concepts and terminology, as well as given hands on training with how to use each of them!