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Graphic Communications at Saskatchewan Polytechnic at Regina

Innovative. Idea-driven. Important. Graphic communications revolutionized society with the printing press. Now it’s leading a new revolution into the digital age. It’s an industry of team players who combine artistic, technical, and entrepreneurial talents to get the job done.

Saskatchewan Polytechnic's Graphic Communications diploma program will challenge students both creatively and technically. Saskatchewan Polytechnic's training ensures students meet national skills standards set out by the Canadian Printing Industries Sector Council. Students will graduate with the kind of practical, hands-on skills students need to succeed—in both traditional and digital printing environments, as well as publishing, advertising, design, and communications.

Graphics Communications is a two-year diploma program offered full-time at Saskatchewan Polytechnic Regina campus. Come here to develop practical, hands-on skills in electronic file management, industry-standard software applications, and print management, production, and administration. This includes training in:

  • Colour copier operation
  • Colour theory and colour management
  • Design and typography
  • Digital photography
  • Hydraulic cutter operation and maintenance
  • Image editing and page layout
  • Industry-standard software and hardware systems
  • Logos, graphs, vector graphics, PDF creation
  • Mixing inks
  • Preflighting, proofing and output methods
  • Screen printing
  • Sheetfed offset press operation and maintenance
  • Wide-format printing
  • Vinyl decal/sticker creation

At graduation, students will have developed a professional portfolio, completed a four-week work experience and have experience managing and producing a “live job” from concept through delivery.

Graphic Communications graduates are working in many different areas—advertising agencies, graphic design firms, electronic pre-press studios, sign shops, commercial and quick-print shops, newspaper, magazine and book publishers, in-house marketing departments, and government communications departments. Look for entry level jobs in design, production art, packaging design, signage, image editing, bindery and finishing, digital print operation, print production planning, management, screen printing and press operations, branding and marketing.

Level Diploma
Discipline Computer Science and IT
Duration 24 months
Intakes Jan, Sep
Application Fees CAD 150
Tuition Fees CAD 16200
Campus Regina
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Admission Requirements
Language proficiency (minimum)
IELTS 6.5
TOEFL 81
PTE 63
Duolingo 105
Exam proficiency (minimum)
SAT Not Required / Waiver
ACT Not Required / Waiver
GRE Not Required / Waiver
GMAT Not Required / Waiver
Requirements

Minimum GPA - 50.0%

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Shanghai Ranking

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis

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The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. CSIC is among the first basic research organizations in Europe. The CSIC consisted in 2006 of 126 centers and institutes distributed throughout Spain.

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