{"id":86,"date":"2013-05-02T03:43:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T03:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:50:02","slug":"department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Graphic Communications Department!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3315 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2022\/04\/AD-Graphics_04-07-22-1.gif\" alt=\"Graphics Classes Ad\" width=\"268\" height=\"150\" \/><\/h4>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/class-schedules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Class Schedule\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Graphic Communications Department provides excellent skill-building opportunities through our face-to-face and online classes. The faculty are highly qualified and fully engaged in a learning partnership with the students. Students are the center of our focus and the faculty is dedicated to help you achieve your educational and career goals.<\/p>\n<p>We offer Beginning and Advanced courses with the Adobe Creative Suite and other relevant software to lead you towards mastery of our industry standards.<\/p>\n<p>The department offers the following Career Paths:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digital Imaging and Publishing (GCIP)<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia and Web Development (GCMW)<\/li>\n<li>Foundations of Graphic Communications (GC)<\/li>\n<p> \t<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><\/p>\n<li> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>*NEW<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>Non-credit GCIP: NGCIP 902 and NGCIP968 &#8211; FREE OF CHARGE!\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CALM program (<b>Comets Affordable Learning Materials<\/b>) = FREE OR LOW COST <\/strong><strong>TEXTBOOKS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses under CALM (Free Textbook):<br \/>\n<\/strong>GC115<br \/>\nGCIP168\/268<br \/>\nGCIP170\/172\/270<br \/>\nGCIP152\/252<br \/>\nGCMW115\/215<br \/>\nGCMW165<br \/>\nGCMW204<br \/>\nGCMW205<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transferable Courses to University of California and California State Universities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palomar has many courses which fulfill general education\u00a0and lower division course\u00a0requirements which are transferable to colleges and universities across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>All Graphics courses are USC and\/or CSU transferable. Please check Palomar College Catalog for course listing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) \u2013 UC\/CSU<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GC115 Graphics &amp; Media \u2013 AREA 3A: Arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>California State University General Education (CSUGE) Requirements<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GC115 Graphics &amp; Media \u2013 AREA C1: Arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Palomar College Associate Degree General Education Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GC115 Graphics &amp; Media \u2013 AREA C: Humanities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Distance Learning Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distance learning course are designed for you. You decide the time and days\u00a0you take the class. Distance learning offers flexibility for your active lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>*NOTE<\/strong><\/span>: Distance Learning students must use their STUDENT PALOMAR E-MAIL ACCOUNT to communicate with their instructors. How do you set up your e-mail account? Instructions are listed at Enrollment Services web site (click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/enrollmentservices\/email\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GC115 Graphics &amp; Media<\/li>\n<li>GCIP140, 141 and 240 Digital Imaging \/ Photoshop I, II and III<\/li>\n<li>GCIP149 Page Layout with InDesign<\/li>\n<li>GCMW102 and 202 Web Page Layout I and II<\/li>\n<li>GCMW115 and 215 Web Page Layout \/ WordPress I and II<\/li>\n<li>GCMW177 SEO for Web Design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Face to Face<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Face to Face courses are designed for the student who wants extra support. You are in a hands-on lab atmosphere to receive that extra help when needed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GCIP140 Digital Imaging \/ Photoshop I<\/li>\n<li>GCIP168 and 268 Digital Imaging with Drones I and II<\/li>\n<li>GCIP170, 172, and 270 Screen Printing, Textile Screen Printing, and Commercial Screen Printing<\/li>\n<li>GCMW165 Digital Video Design<\/li>\n<li>GCMW204 Motion Graphics for Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>GCMW205 Digital Video for Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>GCMW206 Motion Graphics Production and Composition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Partially Online Classes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Need extra help but flexibility as well? Partially Online courses have one class a week face 2 face then the other class time is designed by you. You select when you can spend the extra time working on your course work each week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GCMW204 Motion Graphics for Multimedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To enroll in classes, please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\">Palomar College<\/a> web site at www.palomar.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palomar College &#8211; Graphic Communications<br \/>\n1140 West Mission Road, San Marcos, CA 92069<br \/>\n760-744-1150 ext.2452<a href=\"mailto:graphics@palomar.edu\"><br \/>\ngraphics@palomar.edu<\/a><a href=\"mailto:graphics@palomar.edu\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Schedule\u00a0 The Graphic Communications Department provides excellent skill-building opportunities through our face-to-face and online classes. The faculty are highly qualified and fully engaged in a learning partnership with the students. Students are the center of our focus and the faculty is dedicated to help you achieve your educational and career goals. We offer Beginning&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/\">Continue Reading<span> Welcome to Graphic Communications Department!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}