{"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":"2026-09-16T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:52:29","slug":"department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Graphic Communications Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/class-schedules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Class Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The department offers the following Career Paths<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Digital Imaging and Publishing (GCIP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multimedia and Web Development (GCMW)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foundations of Graphic Communications (GC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>*NEW<\/strong><\/span> Non-credit GCIP (N GCIP) &#8211; FREE OF CHARGE!\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NGCIP 940 Digital Imaging \/ Photoshop I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NGCIP 941 Digital Imaging \/ Photoshop II<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NGCIP 952 Digital Publishing \/ Illustrator I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NGCIP 968 Digital Imaging with Drones I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NGCIP 970 Screen Printing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>CALM program (Comets Affordable Learning Materials) = Free or low cost textbooks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses under CALM (Free Textbook):<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>GC115<br>GCIP168\/268<br>GCIP170\/172\/270<br>GCIP152\/252<br>GCMW115\/215<br>GCMW165<br>GCMW204<br>GCMW205<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transferable Courses to University of California and California State Universities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Palomar has many courses which fulfill general education&nbsp;and lower division course&nbsp;requirements which are transferable to colleges and universities across the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All Graphics courses are USC and\/or CSU transferable. Please check Palomar College Catalog for course listing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) \u2013 UC\/CSU\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GC115 Graphics &amp; Media \u2013 AREA 3A: Arts<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California State University General Education (CSUGE) Requirements\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GC115 Graphics &amp; Media \u2013 AREA C1: Arts<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Palomar College Associate Degree General Education Requirements\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GC115 Graphics &amp; Media \u2013 AREA C: Humanities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Distance Learning Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Distance learning course are designed for you. You decide the time and days&nbsp;you take the class. Distance learning offers flexibility for your active lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GC115 Graphics &amp; Media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCIP140, 141 and 240 Digital Imaging \/ Photoshop I, II and III<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCIP149 Page Layout with InDesign<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCMW102 and 202 Web Page Layout I and II<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCMW115 and 215 Web Page Layout \/ WordPress I and II<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCMW177 SEO for Web Design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Face to Face<\/h2>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GCIP140 Digital Imaging \/ Photoshop I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCIP168 and 268 Digital Imaging with Drones I and II<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCIP170, 172, and 270 Screen Printing, Textile Screen Printing, and Commercial Screen Printing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCMW165 Digital Video Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCMW204 Motion Graphics for Multimedia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCMW205 Digital Video for Multimedia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCMW206 Motion Graphics Production and Composition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Partially Online Classes<\/h2>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GCMW204 Motion Graphics for Multimedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To enroll in classes, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\">Palomar College<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palomar College &#8211; Graphic Communications<br>1140 West Mission Road, San Marcos, CA 92069<br>760-744-1150 ext.2452<br><a href=\"mailto:graphics@palomar.edu\">graphics@palomar.edu<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Schedule 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":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4019,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/4019"}],"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}]}}