Program Overview

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Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sydney offers a diverse range of professional development short courses. These courses are designed to enhance professional development, grow technical and people skills, and support career progression.

Course Subjects

The Centre for Continuing Education offers courses in various subjects, including:

• Business and management
  • Business communication
  • Business strategy
  • Business writing
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Finance
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Organisational psychology
  • Sales and customer service
• English
• HSC preparation (years 10-12)
  • HSC biology
  • HSC business studies
  • HSC chemistry
  • HSC economics
  • HSC English
  • HSC mathematics
  • HSC physics
  • Year 11 (Revision)
  • Years 10-12 study and essay skills
• Humanities and culture
  • Creative writing
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
• Information technology
  • Adobe
  • AI and machine learning courses
  • Data analysis and analytics
  • Google
  • Microsoft
• Language
  • Arabic
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Marketing
  • Digital marketing
  • Marketing communications
  • Product development
• Project management
  • Agile methodology courses
  • Change management for projects
  • Stakeholder and people management
  • Technical project management skills

Course Details

Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 1

This two-day Adobe Illustrator introductory training course provides essential drawing skills and knowledge needed to progress towards the Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 2. The course covers:

• Understanding vector graphics
• Starting Illustrator in Windows
• The welcome experience
• Opening an existing document
• The Illustrator workspace
• The status bar
• Understanding artboards
• Closing a document and exiting Illustrator
• Navigating Illustrator
• Working with objects
• Setting up a new document
• Working with a document
• Layers
• Shapes
• Colour, fill and stroke
• Gradients
• Working with type
• Text and objects
• Introduction to drawing
• Saving and printing
• Getting help

Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Use the Adobe Illustrator application
• Create custom paths
• Enter text in an Illustrator document
• Enhance documents
• Proof documents to make them more accurate
• Save images for web and print

Intended Audience

This course is suitable for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Adobe Illustrator software.

Prerequisites

This introductory course assumes little or no knowledge of the software.

Delivery Modes

The course is available in face-to-face and online delivery modes.

Materials

Course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox.

Before the Course

Participants will need an Adobe Creative Cloud account to participate. If they don't have an existing account, they can purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud account.

Related Courses

• Adobe After Effects Course: Level 1
• Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 2
• Adobe InDesign Course: Level 1
• Adobe Photoshop Course: Level 1
• Adobe Premiere Pro Course: Level 1
• Canva Course: Introduction
• Designing With Adobe Express Course

Meet the Facilitators

Xavier Beau-Davis has extensive qualifications and experience in design and graphic arts, including a Bachelor of Design and a Diploma in Graphic Arts. He also successfully runs his own company.

What Others Say

The tutor was absolutely brilliant. Really knows their stuff. We covered a lot of material and we got excellent hands-on experience.

• Tijana Miljovska

The tutor was very patient, attentive and helpful, the right person in the right place. Although I was using Illustrator a bit in my job I was showed tips and tricks which will help me in the future while doing internal designs. Thanks again.

• Lenka Filipovicova

The course gave me all of the information I needed. It was easy to understand and follow along with instructions. I liked that the classes were very personalised.

• Denise Marinkovic

Upcoming Classes

The Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 1 is available on various dates, including:

• Thu 20 Nov 2025 - Fri 21 Nov 2025
• Thu 5 Mar 2026 - Fri 6 Mar 2026
• Wed 13 May 2026 - Thu 14 May 2026
• Tue 30 Jun 2026 - Wed 1 Jul 2026

Location

The course is available at the Centre for Continuing Education, 160 Missenden Road, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia.

Cost

The cost of the course is A$760.00 - A$830.00.