Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

DESCRIPTION
This is a theoretic-practical course that covers the basic abstract-bidimensional concepts of design and composition laws.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course the student should be able to apply basic visual language to communicate their ideas, feelings, and views.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course the student should be able to:
-handle the basic laws of composition and form.
-compose abstract-bidimensional designs
-know how to abstract, synthesize, and create images of visual communication.
-develop the students sensitivity, conceptualization ability, and visual expression.

CONTENTS
-Abstract-bidimensional concepts.
-Basic elements of design.
-Types of composition.
-Modular compositions.
-Positive and Negative.
-Techniques of visual communication
-Equilibrium and balance.
-Types of contrasts.
-Textures.
-Movements.
-Types of contrast
-Figures and forms.
-Representation, association, symbolization
-Tension
-Gravity