Art Degrees Online

This concentration addresses a traditional design core coupled with digital, portfolio and seminar courses. It prepares students for work as a design professional.

Required course for concentration (15 hours):

MCOM 122 Film Photography 3
MCOM 251 Intro to Graphic Communication 3
VART 310 Typography 1 3
VART 311 Digital Art 3
MCOM 351 Digital Imaging and Illustration 3

Select 6 hours from the following:

VART 199 Topic in Art 3
VART 202 Art and Culture Travel Studies 1-3
MCOM 222 Digital Photography 3
VART 319 Color Photography 3
VART 320 Alternative Photo Practices 3
VART 360 Film and Photo Visual Culture 3
VART 410 Typography 2 3
VART 411 Digital Studio 3
MCOM 445 Digital Illustration 3
MCOM 451 Graphic Communication Seminar 3
VART 492 Topic in Photography 3
VART 494 Topic in Art 3
VART 497 Individual Studio – Design 1-6

Courses required for the minor (12 hours):MCOM 122 Film Photography 3
MCOM 222 Digital Photography 3
VART 319 Color Photography 3
VART 360 Film and Photo Visual Culture 3

Select 6 hours from the following:

VART 202 Art and Culture Travel Studies 1-3
VART 311 Digital Art 3
VART 318 Portrait Photography 3
VART 320 Alternative Photo Practices 3
VART 359 20th Century Art 3
VART 492 Topic in Photography 1-6
VART 495 Directed Study 3
VART 496 Independent Study 3
VART 497 Individual Studio Projects 1-6

The aim of this course is to provide you will all the tools necessary to become an expert in the new and exciting field of digital photography. The degree will equip you with a thorough knowledge of the technologies involved in the production of digital images. We will teach you how to use a range of image scanning devices and software programmes, along with digital printing and output to screen based media. You will also learn about other areas of Media Studies, such as video, writing, hypermedia and digital art, and explore the ways in which they integrate with photography.

Careers
This course prepares you for a wide range of careers in the field of digital imaging, including independent photographic practice, work for web/video production companies, colour management/retouching services, fashion, reportage and editorial photography.

AZTEC is an establish research consortium comprising two research centres and three research groups. The consortium also includes the HEIF funded Centre of Excellence i-DAT in the Faculty of Technology

Critical Spaces aims to enable dialogue across boundaries of research fields and methodologies in contributing to critical understandings of culture and society.

Institute of Digital Art and Technology (i-DAT) aims to define and establish new fields of practice through the creative and innovative use of interactive media, telematic systems and the cognitive and biological sciences.

In Land/Water and the Visual Arts members question, reconsider and renew the nature and use of visual language, in relation to preconceptions of regionalism and landscape art.

Higher

Higher BBC plus English and Mathematics at least @ S Grade.

Higher Art & Design or Graphic Communication preferred for Computer Animation.

Higher Art and Design or Graphic Communication required for Computer Animation with Digital Art.
A-Level

CC plus GCSE English and Mathematics. A practical art-related A-Level preferred for Computer Animation. A practical art-related A-Level required for Computer Animation with Digital Art.
FE
Year 3: HND in relevant discipline. Contact Admissions Officer for details.
NB: Applicants may also be required to submit a portfolio of art work

You know that scene in the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie when the boat sails off the edge of the world? Well, keep it to yourself, but the dirty little secret that Hollywood doesn’t want you to know is that this scene was not shot on location. It was created through the use of many computers, a boatload of software, and a veritable crew of designers, artists, 3-D animators, and storytellers.

Digital Art and Design equips you to work in the field of modern entertainment, which requires a new breed of artist and designer, one who works as easily and as well in the digital world as in the real world. From movies to computer game design and everything in between, Digital Art and Design is a major right on the edge of art and technology.