Date Approved or Revised: February 24, 2012
Course Name: Advanced Desktop Publishing
Course Number: CIST 260
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
Course Description: Presents advanced topics in desktop publishing including working with large publications, working with tables, working with color and advanced publication techniques.
Uses current desktop publishing software like Adobe PageMaker.
Prerequisites: CIST 160
Co-requisites: None
Suggested Enrollment Cap: 25
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the students will be able to:
1. Define desktop publishing
2. Mark index entries and generate an index.
3. Mark table of contents entries and generate a table of contents.
4. Create, modify, and format a table.
5. Explain various guidelines for using color in a publication
6. Add colors and tints to text and PageMaker created graphics.
7. Add, remove, and substitute colors from the Colors palette.
8. Copy colors from one publication to another.
9. Print a publication with color separations.
10. Print a publication with printers’ marks.
11. Create a template from an existing publication.
12. Edit a template file.
13. Create a PDF file of a publication.
14. Create an HTML-format file from a publication.
Assessment Measures: Assessment of all learning outcomes will be measured using the following methods:
1. The instructor will make use of homework, projects, and/or examinations to assess the level of a student’s mastery of these outcomes. This will be done as defined per the instructor’s grading policy listed in the course syllabus. These assessment tools will be generated using departmental computer-based

applications and projects.
Information to be included on the Instructor’s Course Syllabi:
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Disability Statement: Baton Rouge Community College seeks to meet the needs of its students in many ways. See the Office of Disability Services to receive suggestions for disability statements that should be included in each syllabus.
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Grading: The College grading policy should be included in the course syllabus. Any special practices should also go here. This should include the instructor’s and/or the department’s policy for make-up work. For example in a speech course, “Speeches not given on due date will receive no grade higher than a sixty” or “Make-up work will not be accepted after the last day of class.”
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Attendance Policy: Include the overall attendance policy of the college. Instructors may want to add additional information in individual syllabi to meet the needs of their courses.
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General Policies:
Instructors’ policy on the use of things such as beepers and cell phones and/or hand held programmable calculators should be covered in this section.
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Cheating and Plagiarism: This must be included in all syllabi and should include the penalties for incidents in a given class. Students should have a clear idea of what constitutes cheating in a given course.
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Safety Concerns: In some programs this may be a major issue. For example, “No student will be allowed in the safety lab without safety glasses.” General statements such as, “Items that may be harmful to one’s self or others should not be brought to class.”
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Library/ Learning Resources: Since the development of the total person is part of our mission, assignments in the library and/or the Learning Resources Center should be included to assist students in enhancing skills and in using resources. Students should be encouraged to use the library for reading enjoyment as part of lifelong learning.

Expanded Course Outline:
I. Review of Desktop Publishing
A.
Why use desktop publishing?
B.
Traditional Publishing Methods vs. Desktop Publishing
C.
PageMaker Basics
II. Working with Large Publications
A.
Creating and Editing Indexes
B.
Creating a Table of Contents
III. Working with Tables
A.
Creating Tables
B.
Special Selection Techniques
C.
Modifying Tables
D.
Transferring a Table into a Publication
E.
Formatting Tables
IV. Working with Color
A.
Color Basics
B.
Adding and Removing Colors
C.
Choosing Appropriate Colors
D.
Tints
E.
Printing Color Separations
F.
Including Printer’s Marks in a Printout
V. Advanced Publication Techniques
A.
Templates
B.
PDF Files
C.
HTML-Format Files
VI. Additional Independent Projects (if instructor chooses and time permits)