Degree Plan
This major is for the person wanting to be an art director, graphic designer, new media designer, account executive, or copywriter for an advertising agency, graphic design studio, "in-house" corporate art department, or interactive design company.
An OC graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design will:
- Demonstrate effective problem solving skills as applied to visual communications, artistic expression, and graphic design.
- Demonstrate a working understanding of art history: genres, artists, movements, and practitioners.
- Articulate an understanding of one's integration of faith and design/artistic expression.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and think independently.
- Demonstrate a commitment to scholarship and creative expression.
- Demonstrate an ability to reproduce a visual impression/ representation of form, substance, light, and shadow through figure and perspective drawing
- 21 hours foundation courses
- 12 hours art + design core requirements
- ARTS-1113 Fundamentals of Drawing
- ARTS-1213 Figure Drawing
- ARTS-1413 Elements of Visual Thinking
- Choose 1 of the following:
- 9 hours art + design history
- 12 hours art + design core requirements
- 42 hours communication design
- ARTS-1103 Technology for Graphics
- ARTS-2223 Introduction to Communication Design
- ARTS-2233 Type as Visual Language
- ARTS-2243 Interactive Media Design I
- ARTS-2323 Digital Design for Print
- ARTS-2403 Digital Photography
- ARTS-3243 Graphic Design
- ARTS-3253 Print + Social Media Design
- ARTS-3263 Advanced Graphic Design
- ARTS-3443 Interactive Media Design II
- ARTS-3513 Graphic Arts Production
- ARTS-3523 Illustration I
- ARTS-3773 The Business of Branding Yourself
- ARTS-4253 Integrated Marketing Design
- 12 hours concentration area
- Illustration
- Marketing Management
- Choose 4 from the following:
- MGMT-3113 Principles of Management
- MGMT-3323 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
- MKTG-3313 Principles of Marketing
- MKTG-3413 Consumer Behavior
- MKTG-3513 E-Commerce and Online Marketing
- MKTG-4313 Promotional Strategies
- MKTG-4613 Marketing Management
- Gaming + Animation
- Photography + Video
- Choose 4 from the following:










