DEA 2025

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DEA 2025
Impactful Graphics: Visual Communication for Social Impact

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course provides a foundation in graphic design to communicate ideas and create impact. This course encourages students to engage with the visual language of design through experimentation, exploration and iteration, connecting action (making visual form) to reflection (looking and thinking). It will require students to reflect upon the relationship between form-making and meaning-making as well as to consider the ethics of graphic design and its impact on society. Students will work in two dimensions by hand and with the digital tools of the Adobe Suite (Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop).


Prerequisites DEA 1101, DEA 1150/DEA 1140, and DEA 1500.

Enrollment Priority Priority given to: DEA undergraduate majors who have completed 1000-level CORE courses, including DEA 1101, DEA 1150/DEA 1140, and DEA 1500 with minimum grades of B-. DEA minors and transfers will be given enrollment consideration based on course caps and/or permission of instructor.

Distribution Requirements (CA-AG, D-AG), (CA-HE, D-HE, LAD-HE)

Last 1 Terms Offered 2025SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one discussion and one design studio.

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 15585 DEA 2025   DIS 201

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 15586 DEA 2025   DES 501

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: DEA 1101, DEA 1150 or DEA 1140, and DEA 1500 with minimum grades of B-. Enrollment priority given to: Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA) undergraduate majors. DEA minors and transfers will be given enrollment consideration based on course caps and/or permission of instructor.