Course Title: Design and produce text documents

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4405 Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing

Course Title: Design and produce text documents

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 90

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
OFFC5340C	City Campus	TAFE	375T Vocational Design and Social Context	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term2 2021
OFFC5340C	City Campus	TAFE	515T Creative Industries	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term2 2022, Term2 2023, Term2 2024, Term2 2025

Course Contact: Dzintra Boyd

Course Contact Phone: +61399254269

Course Contact Email: pwecoordinators@rmiteduau.onmicrosoft.com

Course Description

Learn publishing-focused design skills from high-level word formatting to producing your own magazine layouts. In this course you will gain practical hands-on experience creating designs from concept to print-ready files. You will learn how to work with text; create templates in Word; source, produce and manipulate images; develop a magazine design; and master Adobe InDesign essentials, including using master documents, setting up style sheets, using layers, managing text and applying colour.

This course is titled Document Design and Production and comprises two competencies, which are co-delivered and co-assessed:

• BSBITU303 Design and produce text documents
• BSBTEC401 Design and produce complex text documents

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	BSBITU303 Design and produce text documents
Elements:	1. Prepare to produce word processed documents 2. Design word processed documents 3. Add tables and other data 4. Produce text documents

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.

You will be able to:

• use MS Word to create templates and format text to professional standards.
• use InDesign to produce print-ready layouts.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment is ongoing throughout the course. Assessment will incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of knowledge and skills and will include participation in class exercises, oral presentations and practical writing tasks. Full assessment briefs will be provided.