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Design Communication I


Course Description

Manual drafting and design drawing skills with an emphasis on the development of basic drafting convention and graphic presentation literacy.


Athena Title

Design Communication I


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Student learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to apply semi-professional drafting and Landscape Architectural standard graphic conventions, such as lettering, composition, line quality, symbol development, and various orthographic techniques, to a variety of artistic mediums.
  • Students will be able to create and assemble scaled drawings with appropriate graphics conventions, such as line weight, rendering techniques, color theory, and reprographic methods.

Topical Outline

  • Tools and equipment use
  • Drafting conventions
  • Line type and hierarchy
  • Lettering
  • Rendering
  • Reprographic methods
  • Rules of dimensioning and sheet layout
  • Plan, section, axon, and perspective drawing

Syllabus