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Lake Campus Business Technologies & Leadership Studies in Education and Organizations (LDR) offers a combined degree program leading to a Bachelor of Technical and Applied Studies (BTAS) in Graphic Design and a Master of Education (MEd) Instructional Design & Learning Technologies (IDL) degrees. The undergraduate BTAS will prepare students for careers as graphic designers in the print, multimedia, and communication fields. The graduate (MEd) will prepare students for careers as instructional designers, educational technologists, or course designers. The program allows nine credit hours of “overlap� courses, where credit is given at both the undergraduate (UG) and graduate (GR) levels, facilitating both BTAS and MEd.

Program Learning Outcomes

The BTAS Graphic Design will prepare students for employment as graphic designers in the print, multimedia, and communication fields. Students will gain industry skills for both print and multimedia areas, including branding, promotional and advertising design, colour theory, publication and layout, packaging design, technical illustration, design and science photography, video production, photo editing, graphic animation, motion graphics, and front-end web design, HTML/CSS, 3D printing and visualization design. In addition, a variety of applied business courses are introduced to students to strengthen their knowledge of the business environment, service marketing, and leadership strategies to use in the communication field.