Bachelor of Fine Arts [B.F.A] [Graphic Design and Digital Media] From Champlain College

True to its mission of bridging tradition and innovation, this program offers students a unique blend of fundamental art and design principles, comprehensive liberal arts studies and active practice in emerging technologies, all connected to current trends in the profession. You will explore a wide spectrum of design projects and set yourself up for future success: employers typically expect qualified junior designers to graduate with a BFA. By the time you graduate, you'll have completed a professional-level design portfolio of your creative works and had it rigorously and individually critiqued by a panel of guest designers from top design firms and in-house corporate design centers.

As a Graphic Design & Digital Media major, you'll mature as a graphic 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.?

• 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