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.
Art, Illustration Concentration, B.A.
Part of the
Art Department in the
College of Arts and Sciences
Requirements
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