Art, Illustration Concentration, B.A.

For Art majors interested in a career in illustration or preparation for graduate study in illustration, the Illustration Concentration (18 additional credits) offers broad-based training in illustration.  In the Illustration Concentration, students will learn how to research, develop, and create ideas relating to characters, stories, graphics, editorials, and settings into pictorial interpretations of ideas or narratives for reproduction in print, electronic, and time-based media.  The Art Department鈥檚 emphasis on drawing from observation allows students to learn to learn to render images in a range of media while offering classes to use electronic media to explore compositional elements of time, movement, and sound.

Requirements

Program Description

For Art majors interested in a career in illustration or preparation for graduate study in illustration, the Illustration Concentration (18 additional credits) offers broad-based training in illustration. In the Illustration Concentration, students will learn how to research, develop, and create ideas relating to characters, stories, graphics, editorials, and settings into pictorial interpretations of ideas or narratives for reproduction in print, electronic, and time-based media. The Art Department's emphasis on drawing from observation allows students to learn to learn to render images in a range of media while offering classes to use electronic media to explore compositional elements of time, movement, and sound.

Requirements for Art Majors
  • One Art elective Credits: 3 Two 300-level Art History Courses Credits: 6

One of the following:

Note:

** Students completing Art Teacher Licensure Programs must take  Introduction to Computer Graphics as their art elective.

Art majors are required to take  and , to satisfy the Appreciation of the Arts requirement of the common core.

Art majors must complete a minimum of 27 credits of course work within the Art Department at 91桃色 State. Students are advised to consult their advisors for information on course sequencing and general core requirements.

Art majors intending to pursue graduate work beyond their major are advised to take additionally recommended studio courses of their choice. It is also advisable to include more than the minimum requirements in Art History.

Illustration Concentration for Art Majors
  • 1, 200-300 level studio class from the Art Department's program of study that is not already required of the major or concentration.
Additional Graduation Requirements

All students must meet the  and complete a general education or common core of studies, distributed among the different academic areas as detailed in  or .

Learning Outcomes

  • Developed capacity for critical, creative, investigative, and conceptual thinking.
  • Ability to identify and solve visual and conceptual problems.
  • Ability to present and communicate effectively, creatively, and critically across a range of form and media
  • Generate a personal focus and contribute an independent voice to the world
  • Be ready to work as professionals in art education; art history; design; fine arts; illustration and animation
  • Refer to the fullest range of historical and contemporary art and design sources from across cultures and time
  • Apply a wide range of research methods and technologies in gathering and analyzing information
  • Engage effectively in individual and/or collaborative approaches to work
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