4/2/2025 8:47:26 PM	CS 72.1B Course Outline as of Fall 2025	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  CS 72.1B	Title:  ADOBE INDESIGN 2
Full Title:  Adobe InDesign 2
Last Reviewed:3/10/2025

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	4.00	Lecture Scheduled	4.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	70.00
Minimum	4.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	4.00			Contact Total	70.00
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  140.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 210.00

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  CS 72.11B

Catalog Description:

Adobe InDesign is a professional desktop publishing application that lets students create stunning page layouts, creative print media, e-books and other digital publications faster and more efficiently. InDesign is built for designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers.

This advanced course will take a basic knowledge of InDesign to the next level. In this course, students will work with advanced text styles, nested styles, and understand hyphenation, justification, and keep options, as well as work with long documents. Explore the features and options of Adobe's artificial intelligence (AI), "Generative Expand."

 

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of CS 72.1A

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Adobe InDesign is a professional desktop publishing application that lets students create stunning page layouts, creative print media, e-books and other digital publications faster and more efficiently. InDesign is built for designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers.

This advanced course will take a basic knowledge of InDesign to the next level. In this course, students will work with advanced text styles, nested styles, and understand hyphenation, justification, and keep options, as well as work with long documents. Explore the features and options of Adobe's artificial intelligence (AI), "Generative Expand."

 

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Course Completion of CS 72.1A
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Spring 2003	Inactive:
UC Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Both Certificate and Major Applicable

COURSE CONTENT

Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Assemble InDesign documents into a series of booked documents and create a table of contents and index.

2. Design complex InDesign documents using advanced text formatting, path and frame techniques, the book panel, and advanced workspaces.

3. Manage the workflow from idea to printed book.

 

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Design different types of documents, including templates, books, booklets, and slideshows.

2. Output a document with advanced printing options and submit a PDF book to an online publisher.

3. Create a complex layout with multiple master pages and sections.

4. Apply advanced text composition using the full set of paragraph and character formatting features and styles.

5. Create and format tables, anchored objects, and nested frames.

6. Create and edit paths and compound paths using the Pen tools and Pathfinder.

7. Enhance an InDesign workflow using glyph sets and snippets.

8. Customize InDesign and set custom defaults.

Topics and Scope

I. Layout Techniques

    A. Structuring special layouts and spreads

    B. Baseline and document grids

    C. Multiple master pages

    D. Section formatting

    E. Advanced layers

II. Working with Text

    A. Cleaning up and editing text

     B. Text composition and advanced formatting

    C. Advanced paragraph and character styles

    D. OpenType fonts and glyph sets

    E. Tables and table styles

    F. Conditional text

III. Path Creation and Editing

    A. Direction Selection vs. Selection tools

    B. Pen tool

    C. Scissors tool

    D. Compound paths

    E. Creating objects from type

IV. Complex Objects

    A. Nested frames

    B. Object styles and stroke styles

    C. Anchored objects

V. InDesign Document Creation

    A. Designing and applying templates

    B. Multi-document books with table of contents and index

    C. Booklets

VI. Document Management

    A. Bridge asset management

    B. Document recovery and customizing InDesign

    C. Managing multiple documents

    D. Preparing a document for high-end printing

    E. PDF creation for printshops and slideshows

VII. Other Topics

    A. Customizing InDesign preferences

    B. Libraries and snippets

    C. Adobe's artificial intelligence (AI), "Generative Expand."

Assignments:

1. Read between 10-20 pages per week from class notes, digital manuals, online references and recommended textbook

2. Assignments:

    a. Redesign a flier and apply advanced paragraph and formatting techniques to fit the text to specified area of the page

    b. Prepare a project proposal using OpenType fonts and glyph sets

    c. Create a project timeline

    d. Edit and clean up web based text with extraneous formatting for placement into a multiple page information piece

    e. Prepare and format a table

    f. Analyze and design a template, including the use of placeholders, master pages, styles and  layers

    g. Generate an automatic table of contents and index for a book of multiple chapters

    h. Submit a multi-document book in PDF format for professional printing

3. Projects:

    a. Advanced project: design and create a multiple chapter project based on a template using the book panel

    b. Capstone semester project: plan, manage, design, layout, and publish a hard copy book by due date

4. Exams (2) and  final exam

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 0 - 0%
None
This is a degree applicable course but assessment tools based on writing are not included because problem solving assessments and skill demonstrations are more appropriate for this course.
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 30 - 60%
Assignments and projects (flier, project, table, booklet, template, font management)
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 30 - 50%
Advanced and Capstone Projects
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 10 - 30%
Exams and final exam
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 0 - 0%
None

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book 2024 Release, Kelly Kordes Anton and Tina DeJarld, Pub. Adobe Press, 2024

Instructor prepared materials.

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