Faith Integration: Majors will apply a Christian worldview to the moral and ethical
questions inherent in the illustration industry.
Visual Literacy: Majors will demonstrate a critical and working familiarity with the
themes and concerns of illustration. Evidence of this will be manifested through
directed projects and their capstone exhibition.
Creative Thinking: Majors will demonstrate the ability to engage in associative/spatial
thinking dynamically channeled through various media through directed formal and conceptual
problems as well as self-determined projects.
Media Fluency: Majors will demonstrate an ability to command the inherent dynamics
of two-dimensional media as applied to the principles of professional design techniques
and best-practices workflows.
Professional Awareness: Majors will acquire the ability to integrate business concepts,
to assess the professional implications of their expressive decisions and to apply
techniques of professional presentation, portfolio creation, and promotion utilized
in the illustration industry.
