Media Arts

Graphic Design

The Graphic Design pathway prepares students to apply skills that focus on the principles and techniques for effectively communicating ideas/information and packaging products to business and consumer audiences both in digital and other formats. Topics of study in this pathway include aesthetic meaning, appreciation, and analysis; construction, development, processing, modeling, simulation and programming of interactive experiences; transmission, distribution and marketing; contextual, cultural and historical aspects and considerations.

Graphic Design Pathway

Pathway Courses

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Year 1

  • Introduction to Media Arts

Year 2

  • Moving Image Animation

Year 3

  • Interactive Design

Year 4

  • Virtual Design

Related Electives

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  • Design Internship


Campus Offered

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  • Ignite

Diploma + Certification

  • Adobe Certified Associate: Photoshop, Flash Illustrator, - Median salary $38,000

  • Autodesk 3DS Max - Median salary $50,000

  • Autodesk Maya - Median salary $45,000


Associate’s in Arts Degree

  • Industry Certification jobs same as above.

  • Gateway has programs/pathways established to transfer to 10 local colleges.

    • Scholars can choose the degree they want to pursue post-Associates’s.

    • Scholars can transfer courses to more than just those 10 colleges.

  • Scholars could take ACA training and become Adobe Certified Expert.

  • Scholars with Associate’s in Arts can pursue a bachelor’s degree and beyond in their choice of major at a university.


College Majors/Career Opportunities

  • Multimedia Specialist, Graphic Designer, Graphic Artist, Editor, Motion Graphic Designer, Design Specialist, Marketing Coordinator, Content Specialist, Web Specialist,Video Specialist, Technical Communications Specialist, Application Specialist, Social Media Manager, Art Director