Video Production - Major #8511

Certificate of Completion Program Map
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The program map below represents an efficient and effective course taking sequence for this program. Individual circumstances might require some changes to this path. It is always recommended that you meet with your pathway counselor to develop a personalized educational plan.


This comprehensive non-credit program features production planning, camera and audio work, post-production editing techniques and technology to produce short digital video projects using standard industry software. Students will experience working in the studio, using the green room, sound room, several types of cameras, and field audio recorders. Project work includes individual, partnership and small group assignments. The skills acquired prepare students for entry-level employment in the video industry as a videographer, editor, YouTube hobbyist, or content producer.


Upon completion of the program, students will:
  1. 1. Demonstrate competency in communications techniques and visual design theory through the use of application specific software and hardware. Assessment: critique of project work, portfolio review.
Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester

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GRC 322
Digital Media

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Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
This course concentrates on working with Adobe Audition software to capture and adjust digital audio with an introduction to digital media. Project work incorporates an assortment of audio/video software and hardware used to create digital slide shows, image capture, and short video.

GRC 323
Video Editing - Adobe Premiere Pro

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Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
This course covers the concepts, theories, and techniques of nonlinear digital video editing. This includes organization of the editing process, working on the timeline, audio editing, basic titles, and basic visual effects using Adobe Premiere Pro. Emphasis will be placed on identifying general principles of editing as well as different aesthetic techniques for source material.

GRC 327
Digital Video Production

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Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
This course provides an Introduction to digital video production with emphasis on planning, storytelling, vocabulary, camera handling, lighting, sound, and working with professional editing software. Students complete short exercises and create video projects.

GRC 331
Photoshop for Design

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Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
This course features Adobe Photoshop with an emphasis on graphic design. Units include production for print, web, and digital media applications.
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          GRC 332
          Cinematography

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          Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
          This course introduces production and post-production processes with emphasis on story telling. Topics include lighting for effect, audio, camera work, video editing, and both group and individual project work.

          GRC 338
          Video Post Production

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          Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
          This course deals with post-production techniques for adjusting audio and video project quality. Units include working with mixed frame sizes, mixed frame rates, correcting color, matching color from various sources and working with log exposure using a test target. Corrective audio adjustments include audio editing tools in Premiere and the use of Adobe Audition, Photoshop and After Effects.

          GRC 341
          Visual Communications

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          Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
          This is a survey course centering around the significant techniques and examples of visual communication as employed by the mass media, including newspapers, magazines, television, and advertising. Discussion and demonstration of the tools used in analyzing visual communication creation and analysis of images for print, web, and video is included.
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                  GRC 347
                  Introduction to Media Appreciation

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                  Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                  This course deals with fundamental principles of media and competencies for digital artists and designers.

                  GRC 351
                  Storyboarding

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                  Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                  This course involves pre-visualization for animation, video, web, and game production. Introduction to media-specific storyboarding processes and techniques.

                  GRC 353
                  Adobe After Effects

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                  Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                  This is an Introduction to motion graphics and video post-processing using Adobe After Effects. Projects incorporate a series of techniques used to create special effects videos.
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