DEGREE PROGRAMS GET STATE APPROVAL.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - State officials have approved three new degree programs and two revised programs in computer graphics at Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. . The changes were announced Monday night during a special computer graphics and multimedia presentation for elected officials. ``We have what I consider to be the best program in California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). , perhaps in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ,'' said Dennis White, dean of the fine, performing and media arts division. As a result of the program changes approved by the state community college Chancellor's Office, students will now be able to earn associate degrees in any five computer graphics areas: computer graphics, digital photographics imaging, computer animation, digital printing and photography. White said it's unusual to go through extensive changes for such a new program, but the changes are needed to keep pace with industry demand. He cited labor projections showing 59,660 jobs will be created in Southern California's digital arts industry in the next eight years. Those jobs will be in fields such as Web design, animation, computer illustration, graphic arts graphic arts: see aquatint; drawing; drypoint; engraving; etching; illustration; linoleum block printing; lithography; mezzotint; niello; pastel; poster; silk-screen printing; silhouette; silverpoint; sketch; stencil; woodcut and wood engraving. production, and film and photo editing See photo editor. , White said. White's announcement comes six months after the college got state approval for two new degree programs in the related area of multimedia with degrees in interactive media and video design and production. In 1985, Antelope Valley College was the first California community college to develop a desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, program. The program got a boost a year later with a $254,000 state grant that enabled the college to create a dedicated computer lab. That was the forerunner A family of ATM adapters from Marconi (formerly Fore Systems). See Marconi. of a computer graphics program that was designated a model instructional program by the California community colleges Chancellor's Office. The program has seven laboratories occupying most of the second floor of the college's largest instructional building, the Applied Arts Building. ``We have the largest specifically designed community college facility in the United States for digital arts instruction,'' White said. |
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