The easy access to digital technology has made ethical considerations increasingly important to visual communicators. This fact has prompted our faculty to place renewed emphasis on ethical discussions and classroom exercises. As a professional program technical skills are always present in classroom instruction and assignments. All professional course grading includes a visual creativity score to ensure aesthetic growth and development. Critical thinking Technical skills are not enough to ensure good employment opportunities for our graduates.
Employers demand the ability to make quick intelligent decisions.
Each course has a realistic problem-solving component. The student is required to determine their own creative approach to class assignments. Student academic achievement Alumni accomplishment Faculty evaluators Quarterly faculty roundtable discussion to assess individual class successes and disappointments. These projects offer students an opportunity to work in a team on an active learning project. All classes above the 300 level require portfolio submission at the completion of the class.