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 Requirement
Students 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 level college foreign language course. This requirement may
also be satisfied by three years of the same foreign language in high
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 Education Requirements |
| 4 |
RHET 105 or 108—Composition
I |
| 3 |
Advanced Composition |
| 15 |
Six hours
in each of the following areas: humanities and the arts, natural
sciences and technology, and social and behavioral sciences.
ARTH 112 satisfies half of the humanities requirement. |
| 6 |
Quantitative reasoning, I and II |
| 6 |
Western and non-Western culture |
| 0-12 |
Foreign language |
| 34 |
Total |
| Hours |
Art History |
| 4 |
ARTH 111—Ancient and Medieval
Art |
| 4 |
ARTH 112—Renaissance and Modern
Art (General Education-Humanities & the Arts) |
| 6 |
Advanced art history |
| 14 |
Total |
| Hours |
General Art and Design
|
| 2 |
ARTF 101—Contemporary Issues
in Art |
| 6 |
ARTF 102 and 104—Drawing, I
and II |
| 6 |
ARTF 103 and 105—Design, I
and II |
| 14 |
Total |
| Hours |
Graphic Design |
| 3 |
ARTD 211—Design History Survey |
| 3 |
ARTD 210—Visual Organization |
| 3 |
ARTD 213—Image Making, I |
| 3 |
ARTD212—Typography |
| 3 |
ARTD 314—Image Making, II |
| 3 |
ARTD 312—Production |
| 3 |
ARTD 310—Advanced Typography |
| 3 |
ARTD 311—Methodology |
| 3 |
ARTD 313—Sequential Design |
| 4 |
ARTD 410—Advanced Graphic Design,
I |
| 4 |
ARTD 411—Advanced Graphic Design,
II |
| 35 |
Total |
| Hours |
Electives |
| 9 |
Open electives (see college list,
no Art courses) |
| 16 |
Art and design and other professional
electives (see advisor) |
| 25 |
Total minimum electives required |
|
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