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CURRICULUM IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
For the Degree Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
The curriculum in graphic design requires 122 credit hours and prepares the student for entrance into the professional practice of visual communications. Studio work encompasses visual organization, typography, image making, sequential design, production techniques, and the process of communication planning.
Foreign Language RequirementStudents entering the University of Illinois as freshmen in Fall 2000 or later need to complete the foreign language requirement in order to graduate. To satisfy this requirement, students must complete a third semester college foreign language course. This requirement may also be satisfied by three years of the same foreign language in hig h school. Students entering the University of Illinois without three years of the same foreign language in high school must take a foreign language placement test to determine the courses in which to enroll.
HOURS GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 4 RHET 105 or 108-English composition 3 Advanced Composition 15 One approved sequence of six hours in each of the following areas: humanities and the arts, natural sciences and technology, and social and behavioral sciences. ARTHI 112 satisfies half of the humanities requirement. 3 Quantitative reasoning 6 Western and non-Western culture 31 Total HOURS ART HISTORY 4 ARTHI 111-Ancient and Medieval Art 4 ARTHI 112-Renaissance and Modern Art 6 Advanced art history 14 Total HOURS GENERAL ART AND DESIGN 2 ARTGP 113-Contemporary Issues in Art and Design 6 ARTGP 117 and 118-Drawing, I and II 6 ARTGP 119 and 120-Design, I and II 14 Total HOURS GRAPHIC DESIGN 3 A RTGD 300-Design History Survey 3 ARTGD 120-Visual Organization 3 ARTGD 130-Image Making I 3 ARTGD 140-Typography 3 ARTGD 210-Image Making II 3 ARTGD 220-Production 3 ARTGD 230-Advanced Typography 3 ARTGD 240-Methodology 3 ARTGD 360-Sequential Design 4 ARTGD 370-Advanced Graphic Design, I 4 ARTGD 380-Advanced Graphic Design, II 35 Total HOURS ELECTIVES 12 Open electives (see college list, no Art courses) 16 Art and design and other professional electives 28 Total minimum electives required