Visual Communications: Graphic Media
What You Will Learn:
- Express your ideas through computer art, design, and photography.
- Gain hands-on experience with photography, graphic design, and computer art.
Skills You Acquire:
- Strong interpersonal, intercultural, writing, and technological skills.
- Hands-on design and writing skills that utilize the latest digital technologies.
- Valuable critical thinking and problem solving skills to adapt to a changing professional environment.
- Skills in audience analysis and the development and implementation of strategic campaigns to effectively use design and writing skills to influence your audience.
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Here are a few examples from Communication students Kathy Thornton and Jacklyn Dowda. These examples are from the required Digital Art class for the Visual Communications: Graphic Media concentration. The assignment was to express one's feelings and thoughts using some type of self-image.
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"This major educates and informs the students how to really use their imagination and creative thoughts to visually communicate with deeper meanings".
Bekah Dalfonso‘09
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General Education Curriculum (55 hours)
Major Required Courses (49 credit hours)
- ART 120: Two-Dimensional Design
- ART 121: Three-Dimensional Design
- COM 202: Introduction to Mass Communication and Mass Media
- COM 210: Photojournalism
- COM 250: Fundamentals of Electronic Media Production I
- ART 260: Black and White Photography
- ART/COM 308: Digital Art I
- ART/COM 309: Digital Art II
- COM 311: Public Relations Practice
- COM 312: Advertising Principles
- COM 314: Strategies for the Advertising/Public Relations Campaign
- COM 325: Web & Interactive Media Design
- COM 340: Professional Writing and Communication
- COM 360: Intercultural Communication
- COM 403: Theories of Media and Visual Culture
- COM 407: Communication Internship
General Electives: 16 credit hours
Total Semester Credits Required in Degree: 120 hours
MINOR in VISUAL COMMUNICATION (21 hours)
- COM 250 Fundamentals of Electronic Media Production I
- COM 251 Fundamentals of Electronic Media Production II
- ART/COM 308 Digital Art I
- COM 350 Introduction to Film and TV Studies
- Two electives with a 300 or 400 level COM prefix
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RECOMMENDED COURSE PROGRESSION PATH
(based on average 15-credit load)
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Fall semester
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Spring semester
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| Freshman |
RHC 100 (1-credit) ENG 101 COM 108 MAT 102 Lab Science 1 HIS 111 |
ENG 102 SOC 105 (or alt. Soc Sci req) Lab Science 2 REL 104 HIS 112 |
| Sophomore |
PED 100 class (2-credit) PSY 101 (or alt. 2nd Soc Sci Req) COM 202 COM 250 (4-credit) COM 210
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PED activity class (1-credit) 200-level English Lit (Gen Ed req) REL 204 or 205 ART/MUSIC core requirement ART 120 Submit Sophomore Portfolio and apply for Formal Admission to Major Standing |
| Junior |
ART 260 ART 121 ART/COM 308 COM 311 COM 325 |
ART/COM 309 COM 312 REL 104 Multicultural / language PED activity class (1-credit) General Elective |
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Senior
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COM 314 COM 340 (formerly 203) COM 360 COM 407 Multicultural course or language Apply for Graduation Submit Draft of Senior Portfolio and meet with Advisor for Draft Review |
COM 403 (formerly 303)
COM 498 (recommended Senior Seminar) General Electives Submit Senior Portfolio and have Exit Interview with Faculty Graduate! |
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For more information
School of Communication Arts & Music
Communications: Dr. Pamela S. Wilson
Program Coordinator, Department of Communication
(770)720-5578 - fax (770)720-9164
email: PSW@reinhardt.edu
