Learning Outcomes for Graphic Design & Visual Communication
Develop a versatile design toolkit, applying your lessons into hands-on learning through professional opportunities and applied projects.
As a Graphic Design & Visual Communication major, you’ll mature as an artist and designer, mastering the basics of form, color, typography, photography, layout, and motion graphics. Our project-based approach will build your skills and portfolio as you work toward a career of creating designs that will promote, inspire, and educate.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Art/Design History, Theory, and Criticism: Evaluate the aesthetic content of artistic works within a specific historical, cultural, and/or commercial context.
- Communication: Demonstrate an effective transference of ideas.
- Creative Aesthetic Fluency: Recognize and apply aesthetic principles within non-original and original works, respectively.
- Integrative Learning: Demonstrate the synthesis of learning from disparate fields into a tangibly synergistic form.
- Professionalism: Display a professional demeanor in managing time, materials, and information, as it reveals motivation, attitude, and work ethic.
- Technique: Able both to determine the mode(s) of production required to achieve a specific product and to demonstrate level-appropriate mastery of skills—manual and/or digital—necessary to achieve those products.
More Inside Learning Outcomes for Graphic Design & Visual Communication
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Overview
Develop a versatile design toolkit, applying your lessons into hands-on learning through professional opportunities and applied projects.
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Curriculum
Your career in graphic design and visual communication begins now with Champlain’s Upside-Down Curriculum. Discover the difference that doing on day one has on your success.
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Faculty
Learn more about the experienced professionals leading Champlain College's graphic design and visual communication program who are dedicated to teaching and mentoring you.