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    Jul 16, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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DDSGN 120 Production Management (3 credits)



Course Description
This course will trace the production flow from creation to implementation for design projects. Specific content will include stages of analysis and development, principles of task management, and contract writing.

Course Content
Project Analysis and Development
Elements of task management (e.g. goal definition, monitoring, implementing, coordinating and evaluating work processes)
Contracts and other Legal Forms
Preproduction and proposals, project analysis and scope, personnel plan
Production timelines, detailed list of tasks
Post-production and Delivery (e.g. product testing, troubleshooting, customer acceptance testing, and implementation.)
Regulations and Laws
Career Options

Student Outcomes
  1. Define the elements of project management to include pre-production, production, post-production and delivery, and the theory behind efficient processes.
  2. Prepare a design project proposal and contract for a client.
  3. Apply the elements of pre-production and production.
  4. Apply elements of task management for digital design projects
  5. Apply the elements of post-production.
  6. Identify career options and trends related to production management.
  7. Apply regulations and laws related to production management.


Degree Outcomes
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

Potential Methods
Individual/group projects
Self-assessment
Peer-assessment
Research Paper
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