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Multimedia Design

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Multimedia Design

How many videos, animations, motion graphics have you watched this week? Ever wonder how these were created? Multimedia design brings video, audio, graphics, photography, and web design into one technical skill, producing well-rounded artists for an exciting and growing industry. In this program, students gain skills using a variety of mediums to create informational and promotional videos, brochures, web designs, and interactive presentations using industry-standard software and equipment.

Career

Multimedia Designer
Video Producer
Editor
Animator
Filmmaker
Instructional Designer
Visual Designer


Bachelor’s Degree

Highline’s newest Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) degree in Integrated Design takes a holistic approach to design by combining your passion for visual design, technology and problem solving with accessibility, equity and universal design. Discover the relationships between various design fields, and prepare yourself to become part of the next generation of forward-thinking designers.

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Career

Depending on your area of interest students are working in the following fields:
Interior Design
Graphic Design
Multimedia Design
Drafting Design
Web Design

Department/Program URL:

BAS Integrated Design Program

GPA Requirement:

2.0 Overall

Number of Credits:

180

Degree or Certificate Learning Outcomes:

  • Articulate, research and conceptualize multiple solutions to any design problem.
  • Communicate design intent, clearly and competently, in their work, their speech and their writing.
  • Convert abstract design requirements into original and creative design work.
  • Integrate the use of technology seamlessly into the design process.
  • Demonstrate effective leadership, group and collaborative skills to work across disciplines in successfully implementing a design.

Top Transfer-To institutions

  • Seattle University (Master of Fine Arts in Arts Leadership)

Important Dates or Milestones Specific to Degree/Certificate

Apply for program when you have completed 60 credits of your Associate Degree

Key Advisors

Tamara Hilton

Associate Degrees

Multimedia Design brings video, audio, graphics, and web design into one technical skill. Highline College Multimedia Design graduates  learn the skills needed to flourish in this booming industry.

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Department/Program URL:

Art and Design Department – Multimedia Design Program

GPA Requirement:

Students must achieve a minimum overall GPA of 2.0.

Number of Credits:

90 – 91

Degree or Certificate Learning Outcomes:

  • Demonstrate awareness of the career options, current issues, and professional practices of the multimedia artist profession.
  • Apply effective interpersonal communications with clients, co-workers, managers, suppliers, workrooms and subcontractors within the multimedia profession.
  • Know the professional resources that a multimedia artist would use in keeping current with the profession.
  • Identify suitable employment opportunities by matching personal and professional interests and abilities with positions within the multimedia profession.
  • Develop and implement solutions to interactive communication problems.
  • Identify and use differences in audiences and cultures when creating the multimedia product.
  • Initiate projects and use technology appropriate to audience needs.
  • Use trade practices, ethics and copyright laws related to multimedia design.

Top Transfer-To institutions

  • Highline College, Bachelor of Applied Science in Integrated Design
  • Olympic College, Bachelor of Applied Science in Digital Filmmaking
  • Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science in Design

Important Dates or Milestones Specific to Degree/Certificate

N/A

Key Advisors

Zanetka Gawronski

Multimedia Design brings video, audio, graphics, and web design into one technical skill. Highline College Multimedia Design graduates will learn the skills needed to flourish in this booming industry.

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Program Map

Department/Program URL:

Art and Design Department – Multimedia Design Program

GPA Requirement:

Students must achieve a minimum overall GPA of 2.0.

Number of Credits:

90 – 91

Degree or Certificate Learning Outcomes:

  • Demonstrate awareness of the career options, current issues, and professional practices of the multimedia artist profession.
  • Apply effective interpersonal communications with clients, co-workers, managers, suppliers, workrooms and subcontractors within the multimedia profession.
  • Know the professional resources that a multimedia artist would use in keeping current with the profession.
  • Identify suitable employment opportunities by matching personal and professional interests and abilities with positions within the multimedia profession.
  • Develop and implement solutions to interactive communication problems.
  • Identify and use differences in audiences and cultures when creating the multimedia product.
  • Initiate projects and use technology appropriate to audience needs.
  • Use trade practices, ethics and copyright laws related to multimedia design.

Top Transfer-To institutions

  • Highline College (Bachelor of Applied Science in Integrated Design)
  • Olympic College (Bachelor of Applied Science in Digital Filmmaking)
  • Lake Washington Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Applied Science in Design)

Important Dates or Milestones Specific to Degree/Certificate

N/A

Key Advisors

Zanetka Gawronski