Art Degrees Online

Our Illustration Foundation course, based at Sussex Coast College Hastings, will provide you with an understanding of the function and scope of illustration. You will have the opportunity to approach the discipline in a way that is individual, questioning and innovative. Cultural and critical theory provides a basis for subject practice. Business awareness and vocational skills are raised through work-related learning and links with employers.
Areas of study

You will explore how meaning is conveyed through all visual images. The use of media is wide ranging with the opportunity to specialise in year 2 in printmaking, type and image, digital technology, animation, book arts, and mixed media. For the most part, it is drawing in all its forms that will inform your experience on this course. It is the wide-ranging nature of the experience offered, together with an emphasis on the understanding of the critical and contextual dimensions of illustration, which will challenge you to develop your own personal style and working method. This, together with a strong emphasis on professional practice, will provide you with a sound basis on which you can draw throughout your career and in response to ever-changing professional environments.

You will have access to research and information resources at the University of Brighton.
Syllabus

Year 1
Drawing
Ideas Generation and Development
Graphic Narration
Animation
Specialist Practice
Personal and Professional Development
Culture, Context and Meaning

Year 2
Concepts and Ideologies into Practice
Specialist Pathway
Presentation project
Professional Practice
Culture, Context and Meaning

Career and progression opportunities

Opportunities for illustrators are generally on a freelance basis whether within editorial, book publishing or advertising. In addition, illustrators may exhibit their artwork and develop a range of creative ideas and applications from which they develop their own markets. Students have successfully undertaken work placements at Coley Porter Bell, London; understudied leading illustrators within the work place in Hastings and Brighton; organised an illustration event entitled Alternative Fashion using paper clothing; and produced window displays for environmentally focused shops in Hastings as well as an exhibition at the Rye Gallery.

The invention of photography more than 150 years ago furthered our awareness of the power of visual culture. The still photograph has contributed to the images we hold in our personal, cultural and global lives. The 18 credit curriculum of MMC’s Photography minor is designed to compliment and intersect many disciplines within the College’s curriculum. The photography minor will provide a solid foundation in the image-making process. Students will study the rich history of the medium, gain hands-on experience through traditional techniques and cutting edge technologies in the pursuit of a personal vision.

Course Requirements:
Color and Design
Photography I, Photography II
Digital Imaging
The History of Photography
A choice of one elective course in Color Photography, Artist’s Books, Graphic Design II, Internship or Independent study.

The MMC Advantage

Marymount Manhattan College is superbly qualified to launch your career as a professional artist, graphic designer, art historian, art therapist, art teacher, arts administrator, or curator through the extraordinary resources of MMC’s coursework and its non-traditional off- and on-campus experiential learning programs.

Classes are small and provide an academic environment which fosters close relationships among classmates and teachers. Whatever your interests and needs might be, our faculty are willing to spend the time to advise you and help you tailor your studies to meet your academic and career goals. Marymount Manhattan has an excellent faculty which draws on the abundant talent available in New York City. Our art faculty teach students through flexible, non-traditional internships, independent studies and apprenticeship programs in museums, art galleries, auction houses, advertising agencies, design studios, publishing houses and many other exciting professional environments.

These programs provide a bridge from the College to the professional art world. Students benefit by having access to this professional faculty and working closely with them. The unique mix of backgrounds provide valuable connections to the art community. With all of New York City as a campus, taking advantage of the rich resources of the city’s cultural life enlarges the classroom experience.

Where do you go from here?

Located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Marymount Manhattan College is amid one of the richest concentrations of art and photography in the world. MMC is within walking distance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Frick Collection, the Guggenheim Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and numerous galleries. Art majors and minors at Marymount Manhattan benefit from this wealth of cultural institutions as extensions of the classroom experience.

This course equips you with strong practical skills whilst also providing the critical framework needed for a career in photography and the media.

Historical and critical studies will inform the development of your individual practice, and you will be guided through concepts relating to the production, philosophy and critical position of the image within contemporary visual culture.

Visiting speakers from industry and the arts offer an insight into their practice and help you to develop your awareness of professional environments and contexts.

Visits to cultural centres such as Paris and New York are offered during the course.