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Prof: Zachary Kaiser / Summer 2025
Apr 27, 2026
The course was good. It's quite heavy in reading at first, but it's OK. You can choose either video form or text form. There's also a poster project, plus a mind map project described below.
You'll be reading about concepts like Typography, Text, Color, Form, and other concepts. You'll also have a poster project about one of the concepts, plus a mind map of the concepts in Miro. I really liked the mind map part. It taught me how to mind map.
While many other people drank the Kool-Aid on AI, Zachary Kaiser keeps it real. He's not afraid to criticize AI and its problems on society, even if people
If you're not a GD major, consider taking it over the summer. Reserved capacities in the main fall & spring semesters mean that getting into this class as a non GD major is very difficult
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Prof: Benjamin V. / Summer 2025
Apr 27, 2026
An overall enjoyable course where I learned how to use various tools that are used in modern graphic design. The course centers around making your own logo for a charity.
You'll be doing mood boards in Miro, interface design in Figma, logo design in Illustrator, Making a GIF in photoshop, making a flyer in InDesign, and making the logo animated in After Effects.
For whatever reason, the RMC system seems to think that Benjamin Van **** is a swear name [Scunthorpe Problem]
1. Consider taking this course over the summer. Unless you're a GD major, you'll have a hard time getting in over the main Fall & Spring semesters due to reserved capacities 2. Get an Adobe CC license from the MSU Tech Store
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Prof: Wisa Fink / Fall 2025
Apr 27, 2026
Easy, but not very useful. I don't feel like I learned very much when it came to GIS, but it's a prerequisite for more advanced GIS courses. It's one of those courses.
It's mostly making a storymap. Too much story maps, not enough GIS.
The labs can take longer than expected.
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Prof: Ryan Shadbolt / Fall 2025
Apr 27, 2026
Overall, good class
There's presentations from prospective employers from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. There's presentations by students about the textbook, this class is a semester long group projects, and there's usually an short essay every week about the content.
Ryan Shadbolt is legendary and cares a lot. He will let you resubmit assignments if you turn it in a week early.
Prepare for groups of 7 people
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Prof: Lisa Whiting-dobson / Fall 2025
Apr 27, 2026
Amazing elective class. Perfect fit for any & all majors. The professor is clearly passionate about this
You'll be using your camera to shoot a variety of shot styles (full, closeup, mid, etc.), angles, etc. You'll also watch lectures about this.
Very passionate about the topic & her time at WKAR (she's retired now, moving to teaching)
You'll need to do grading appointments, some of which may be outside of normal class hours.