Course Description - Diploma of Graphic Design

  • 99991031: Arabic Language [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to develop the students’ cognitive abilities and communication skills in Arabic language by introducing Arabic dictionaries, spelling and grammatical errors, and familiarizing them with ancient and modern Arabic literary models including models from the Holy Qur’an.


  • 8182285: [3 Credit Hours]


  • 99991112: Entrepreneurship 2 [2 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the main concepts in entrepreneurship and focuses on providing the student with the ability to write business plans, study their feasibility, start an entrepreneurial project.


  • 8181141: Computer Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    It should introduce the student to concepts of computer drawing from drawing vector or point drawing in addition to the concept of colors and sources of access to images and shapes and mastering drawing and design using design programs.


  • 8182286: [3 Credit Hours]


  • 99992013: Anti-corruption "Challenges and Solutions" [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the concept of corruption, its forms and definition as well as the role of civil society institutions and local bodies in combating corruption.


  • 8181131: Color theory and techniques [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with the theories of color at the different artist schools, and a comprehensive study of color, color classification, its sections and groups, color dynamics, color relations, psychological and functional foundations, color effects in the eye of the viewer and practical applications in color for different combinations. Color Interference and Interaction, Computer and Color, Design with Color, Color in Fine Arts, Color Perspective.


  • 8181271: Art history [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to the technical information and concepts of how art originated in ancient civilizations from antiquity such as stone through pharaonic, and rafidian era, and Western art in antiquity in Renaissance art and Islamic art, and Christian art in Europe until 20th century art in the Arab World.


  • 8181222: academic drawing 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the student to: Identify the different modes of representation in drawing, training in the use of various drawing methods, drawing in water colors, drawing in oil colors, the cloth used in drawing, brushes and types, knives used in oil painting, oils , phases of oil painting, painting for various silent themes and others of nature.


  • 8181145: History of Graphic [3 Credit Hours]

    this art and the study of various printing techniques with practical applications using wood, linoleum, zinc and others manually and mechanically.


  • 8182248: Graphic Design 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the students to the different aspects of advertising campaigns targeting different aspects of life. The course also aims to develop distinguished graphic designs that can be used in advertisements and posters for promotional campaigns.


  • 8182176: [3 Credit Hours]


  • 99992061: English Language [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at developing students’ repertoire of the English language main skills as well as sub-skills through providing them with broad varieties of language patterns, grammatical and structural rules, and vocabulary items that can enable them to communicate meaningfully within ordinary and real-life contexts and situations. This course is also oriented towards equipping students with the skills they need to comprehend texts, contexts, and situations that are related to ordinary and real-life topics. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a wide and various aural inputs in order to broaden and deepen their skills in listening, judgment, and critical thinking. Students of this course are expected to acquire and practice the skills they need to maximize their capabilities to express opinions about ordinary and real life topics both orally and in a written format, which will help in widening the students’ academic horizon.


  • 99991110: Entrepreneurship 1 [1 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the basic concepts in entrepreneurship and focuses on equipping the students with the ability to write business plans, study their feasibility and start an entrepreneurial project.


  • 8182147: Graphic Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with the study of the aesthetic the unity of the letters and the knowledge of the technological creative methods and methods of employing them in the field of the various basic graphic designs - logo, registered brand, correspondence paper, post cards, honor certificates, postage stamps, book covers and magazines. Design of production for factories and commercial establishments, also, how to deal with the photograph and its employment, product packaging, advertising, illuminated advertising, freight cars and others.


  • 8182274: [3 Credit Hours]


  • 99991051: Physical Activity [1 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces the basic concepts of physical education, its objectives and its relationship to general education, defining the most important skills and basic principles of some group and individual games.


  • 99991061: [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enhance and enrich students’ skills with modern concepts of information technology, as well as skills in dealing with computers, digital devices, modern computer applications in practical life, the Internet, information security concepts, and data analysis. The student applies the concepts and skills he acquires using appropriate programs.


  • 99992011: Arabic & Islamic Thought [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to solidify the concept of Islamic culture, and to introduce students to sound cultural and intellectual concepts about the sources of Islam, the Islamic faith and its’ pillars, and the Islamic Shariah, which regulates all aspects of life: social, economic and political. It also clarifies the position of Islam on a number of contemporary intellectual issues, and introduces the most important challenges facing Islam and its’ culture.


  • 8181242: Computer Design 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    Processing digital image in terms of lighting, colors, sizes, cropping photos and various effects both to create images and integrate or restore old photos.


  • 8182244: Computer Design 4 [3 Credit Hours]

    The Students should mastering the design of text and letterhead and install a set of pages with each other like magazines and books in different directions.


  • 8182275: [3 Credit Hours]


  • 8181232: Typography [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to study the typography of art and technique through different ages, which depends on the art of formation by letters, creating, arranging, organizing and modifying them through the use of a variety of techniques and software and to introduce contemporary font concepts.


  • 8181121: Academic drawing 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to introduce students to drawing tools, including paper and pens of various kinds, the method of estimating dimensions by pencil, pencil layout and identification of types of lines, recognition of shadows and light, drawings of silent nature, drawings of external scenes such as trees and paper, painting by wood colors, Anatomical to the human body.


  • 8181246: Principles of Graphic Design [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with the definition of the design, its types, techniques, materials and tools, and introduce the student about the design's idea, its elements, and its characteristics (such as color, line, space, mass, vacuum, balance, movement, distribution, homogeneity, space etc. ...) and how to deal with shapes in two dimensions and three dimensions, and the scope of application, and introduce to various forms of aesthetic relations in the field of design.


  • 8182143: Computer Design 3 [3 Credit Hours]

    Mastering the drawing curves, and using brushes and color patterns, fill colors and raw materials and dealing with the text and its various effects and mastering the design of a variety of graphics such as slogans, shapes and symbols.


  • 8182132: Photography [2 Credit Hours]

    Basic principles in photography, historical development of photography, technical means and various cameras and it's types, lenses and films, film treatment with chemicals, printing and zoom, the foundations of formation art and sensory aspects in the choice of subject and screenshot with practical applications inside and outside the studio, as well as study the importance of digital photography in shortening traditional methods and accuracy of work, Graphic and interior design and post-image processing.