Nov 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Visual Art: Illustration, AA (VART-AA-ILL)

Location(s): Housatonic, Manchester, Tunxis


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*Disclaimer 
This program prepares students with a foundation of courses in art and provides them with an opportunity to pursue a career as an illustrator or in a related field that includes animation, cartooning, and fine arts.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of all program requirements, graduates should be able to: 

  • Become competent in a variety of artistic and digital media.
  • Develop the ability to identify, analyze, and solve design problems.
  • Obtain an understanding of the aesthetics of illustration and of the history and current state of design. 
  • Become proficient in the selection and use of relevant technologies and computer software in illustration. 
  • Ability to use available software and non-digital processes to sketch, model, and produce an illustration. 
  • Design and develop an illustration from sketch to mockup to finished process. 

  • Become proficient in presenting work as well as discussing and constructively critiquing the work of others.

Illustration Option Courses (15 credits)


Total Credits: 60-62


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