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2008-2009 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2008-2009 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Visual Communications Major/Graphic Design Concentration (Bachelor of Fine Arts)


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After the foundation year, students in Visual Communications may choose to concentrate in Graphic Design. Graphic designers are those who bring order and clarity to the myriad graphic messages that saturate every aspect of daily life.

In the Graphic Design track, each course builds in sequence on the courses preceding it so that the student becomes thoroughly versed in the design process from concept to finished piece. Students develop a growing body of knowledge and expertise in concepts, composition and layout, typography, and imagery in both contemporary and historical contexts, learning more advanced methods and techniques as the course sequence continues. Students develop their visual and conceptual acuity through traditional forms as well as animation, video, web and multimedia. At Endicott, students also make use of liberal studies to become broadly educated, literate designers who are fully cognizant of the impact that design has in the world.

Recent Graphic Design Internship sites include:
   
Avid Technology, Inc.
    Deos Animation Studios
    Modernista
    MTV.com
    Mullen Advertising
    Peabody Essex Museum
    Puma
    RCA Records 
    Reebook, Inc.
    Rockport Publishing
    Sky World Interactive

Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 128


Sophomore - Credits: 33


  • Art Elective    (Cr: 3)
  • Math Core Requirement    (Cr: 3)
  • Science Core Requirement    (Cr: 4)
  • Social Science Core Requirement    (Cr: 3)

Junior - Credits: 32


  • Arts and Humanities Core Requirement    (Cr: 3)
  • Core Elective    (Cr: 3)
  • Math or Science Core Requirement    (Cr: 3)
  • Social Science Core requirement    (Cr: 3)
  • Upper Level Art History    (Cr: 3)
  • Visual Communications Electives    (Cr: 6)

Senior - Credits: 30


  • Core Electives    (Cr: 6)
  • Social Science Core Requirement    (Cr: 3)

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