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Visual and Digital Arts |
School of Media Studies & Information Technology |
Program AvailabilityNorth Fall 2012: Waitlisted |
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Type:
Diploma
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Campus:
North
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Program Code:
10581 |
Length: Four semesters, beginning in September |
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CONTACT INFORMATION: Noni Kaur, MA, BFA, program co-ordinator | 416.675.6622 ext. 5134 | noni.kaur@humber.ca
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With its focus on drawing and painting, this visual and digital arts diploma program offers students an exciting and challenging opportunity to develop an enhanced skill set applicable to every discipline within the spectrum of visual arts. You will learn to effectively plan and implement creative visual material, and facilitate expression and communication. Students gain knowledge and skills in art history, drawing, illustration, color, composition, figure drawing, painting, digital art, and photography. State-of-the-art software/technology, such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Corel Painter is used for the digital content in the program. As well, general education courses expose students to today’s society and culture. A unique aspect of this program takes place during the final semester when students have an opportunity to access professional mentors in the field. Working with an established, professional artist as mentor, students report at regular intervals for critique of individual assignments and art direction. Students graduate with a comprehensive portfolio, ready to enter the marketplace.
Our Advisory Committee provides regular review and input of our curriculum ensuring our program is always on the cutting edge of industry developments.
Although the Information Age has created an explosion of career opportunities for visual and digital artists, the competition is keen. It is an exciting career that encompasses creativity, excitement, challenges and always new insights. But employers agree: professional drawing skills reinforced with fine art principles will distinguish an applicant from among the crowd.
Enjoy exciting entry-level positions in the visual, graphic and media arts industry with this arts diploma. Use your creative and technical skills as an illustrator, a concept artist, an advertising layout artist, storyboard artist, digital illustrator, visualizer, concept artist, artist representative, gallery or artist supply assistant, graphic artist, photographer’s assistant or art teaching assistant. Be gainfully self-employed as a freelance artist, illustrator or art instructor in an arts and crafts association. Many of our graduates also pursue further higher education within media studies and the visual arts, given that they will be equipped with a comprehensive portfolio to showcase their acquired skills.
Note: For more information visit Selection Procedures.
Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission to the program.
The two-year training regimen is excellent preparation for students who wish to continue studies in higher education toward a visual and digital arts/media specialization, such as 3D animation or interactive multimedia design and illustration.
The 2012/2013 fee for two semesters is
– domestic $6,350.46
– international $12,800.
Amounts listed are the total of tuition, lab and material fees, student service and auxiliary fees for the first two semesters of the 2012/2013 academic year.
Fees are subject to change.
For more information visit Fees and Financial Assistance.
$750 approximately for traditional materials; access to a digital camera for third semester; $230 to $350 for a digital tablet for third/fourth semesters – the Wacom Intuos 4" x 5" or 6" x 8" is recommended (6" x 11" for wide-screen format).
Semester 1 | ||
| Course Code | Course | Credits |
| COMM 200 | College Writing SkillsCollege Writing SkillsCourse Code: COMM 200 Credits: 3 College Writing Skills emphasizes elements of the writing process. Although subject matter and format may change from one program to another, the skills necessary for effective writing remain the same, as do the professional standards that all Humber students are expected to attain.
Students will practice the reading and writing skills that will be valuable in their college programs and build a strong base for professional business writing. Those students who plan to further their studies will develop the fundamental skills for writing acceptable academic English.
To help students reach these goals, the course covers the following: analytical reading and critical thinking; essay organization and development; and the elements of clear writing, including grammar and punctuation skills.
To complete COMM 200 successfully, students must produce writing that meets or surpasses the minimum departmental standards as set out in the attached criterion sheet.
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| VADA 110 | Drawing 1Drawing 1Course Code: VADA 110 Credits: 3 The central goal of the course is to teach the visual skills needed to draw accurately (representational). The basic fundamentals of drawing: gesture, measurement, proportion, shape, line, value and form will be investigated and practiced through formal academic exercises, including replicating a master drawing. ???3 | 3 |
| VADA 120 | Illustration Materials and Techniques 1Illustration Materials and Techniques 1Course Code: VADA 120 Credits: 3 Students are encouraged to develop familiarity with a variety of media, surfaces and materials. A basic step toward finding a creative voice of expression as a visual artist, and thereby effectively telling stories with pictures, is through discovering the scope of tools available and their expressive potential. Students will respond to conceptual challenges presented as illustration briefs. They will explore a range of possibilities, applying rendering techniques with graphite, ink, watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil on a variety of substrates. Student responses to visual challenges will train the imagination and enable evolution of individual expression. | 3 |
| VADA 130 | Colour Theory Colour TheoryCourse Code: VADA 130 Credits: 3 Exploration of colour theory will prepare students to begin to apply colour judiciously, with rationale and forethought. Intimate familiarity with pigment-based colour theory and practice will be gained through the preparation of extensive colour mixing charts. | 3 |
| VADA 140 | Perspective DrawingPerspective DrawingCourse Code: VADA 140 Credits: 3 Architectural models and mechanical methods for creating isometric, axonometric and visual perspective drawings are explored in depth. Students learn how to create a three-dimensional perspective grid upon which to unify scale and proportion throughout a composition. Students also learn to apply illustrator's perspective short cuts to their work. | 3 |
| VADA 150 | Structural Visualization and CompositionStructural Visualization and CompositionCourse Code: VADA 150 Credits: 3 Abstractions of line, mass and form have their place in representational, objective art. This course explores those options in two parts: first, three-dimensional geometric primitives (volumetric contour drawing) will be implemented as constructs upon which to build visual, representational frameworks of the objective world. Complex three-dimensional solids will be reduced to structural armatures: simplification to aid the powers of visualization in imaginative drawing. Second, compositional possibilities will be examined in the process of dividing the limitation of the traditional rectangular format. Classical principles of two-dimensional design will be applied. Emphasis, balance, contrast, line, tone, colour, form, pattern and geometry will be examined for their power as compositional elements. | 3 |
| VADA 160 | Art History 1Art History 1Course Code: VADA 160 Credits: 3 Students will acquire an appreciation of the breakthroughs in technology in painting and drawing through the centuries that led to the great achievements in representational art. Students will study the personalities who were pivotal in these developments. The first era will include objective figurative drawing, painting and sculpture from prehistoric times through ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantine and the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Baroque period. | 3 |
Semester 2 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| COMM 300 | Business Writing SkillsBusiness Writing SkillsCourse Code: COMM 300 Credits: 3 Business Writing Skills introduces students to the strategies of effective written workplace communication. This course is designed to build on and reinforce the writing skills developed in COMM 200 and requires students to apply these skills to vocationally relevant assignments. Students will learn how to select and organize pertinent information according to purpose and audience and will practise presenting their ideas clearly, precisely, and effectively in various written formats. To complete COMM 300 successfully, students must produce writing that meets or surpasses the minimum departmental standards as set out in the criterion sheet. | 3 |
| HUMA 024 | Humanities: An Introduction to Arts and ScienceHumanities: An Introduction to Arts and ScienceCourse Code: HUMA 024 Credits: 3 The Humanities course focuses on fundamental questions individuals ask of themselves as they proceed through life. Why are we the way we are? Do we have free will or are we prisoners of our past experience or our biological inheritance? What motivates societies to change? Why do societal changes so often divide people into opposing camps? Why do so many people find contemporary life at home, at work, and in the community unfulfilling? What constitutes good government? How should injustice be fought? Can nations successfully deal with global problems? What is science and how does it differ from other kinds of inquiry? Can scientists provide solutions to the problems we face? What is art and does it offer answers of its own? What is its relationship to beauty, to knowledge, and to ethics? Is objectivity about art (or anything) possible? These questions are organized into units that begin with issues concerning the nature of the individual and then extend outward to various social, cultural and physical contexts.
The issues explored in this course are too complex to have any one right answer. Rather, individuals must search for answers that make sense of their experiences via various theoretical perspectives. The Humanities course supports this endeavour through study of different thinkers presented in the readings and exploration of different points of view explored in class discussions.
ESL students should consider taking the ESL Humanities course. Students may transfer into
ESL Humanities (HESL 024) either at the Registrar?s Office or the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Office (K201) on a first-come, first-served basis before the Last Day to Add. | 3 |
| VADA 210 | Drawing 2Drawing 2Course Code: VADA 210 Credits: 3 Students continue the rigorous regimen of formal academic drawing exercises in the atelier style of training in neo-classical realism begun in Drawing 1. Working with a strictly disciplined approach to measurement, students will work to replicate master drawings. | 3 |
| VADA 230 | Figure Drawing 1Figure Drawing 1Course Code: VADA 230 Credits: 3 Students will be challenged with working from the live model - the most demanding of any discipline in the visual arts, and the foundational basis for all great figurative art and anthropomorphic design. Students will apply skills learned in the Anatomy course. Principles observed in the figurative treatments addressed in the historical overview will be identified and creatively applied, combining visual culture with contemporary practice. | 3 |
| VADA 240 | Foundation PaintingFoundation PaintingCourse Code: VADA 240 Credits: 3 Through the exploration and application of oil painting materials and techniques, students begin to develop their capacity for observation and creative self-expression with textures and surfaces. Students will work from casts initially, isolating the analytical task to primarily monochrome painting. As working in oils is the most flexible medium, students will master this medium in preparation for others. | 3 |
| VADA 250 | Anatomy for ArtistsAnatomy for ArtistsCourse Code: VADA 250 Credits: 3 The major muscle groups of the human body are studied in relation to the bones of the skeleton. Students will learn to identify the correct position of the bones and muscles as identified on the changing surface of the human figure in motion. The course includes a major drawing component. | 3 |
| VADA 360 | Art History 2Art History 2Course Code: VADA 360 Credits: 3 The curriculum continues to follow the evolution of representational art. It will include objective figurative drawing, painting and sculpture from the romantic periods, the neo-classical, the arts and crafts movements, The impressionists and post-impressionists, the expressionists and modernism, the surrealists, post-modernism and the connection to the golden age of illustration, as well as the influences of the digital age. | 3 |
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