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Associate in Arts Degree

Campus contact for this program:
Professor John Favret: JFavret@hcc.commnet.edu

This program prepares students with a foundation of courses in art and provides them with an opportunity to pursue a career as an illustrator or in a related field that includes animation, cartooning, and fine arts.

Outcomes:

• Attain mastery of the basic conventions of drawing and design.
• Become competent in a variety of artistic and digital media.
• Develop the ability to identify, analyze, and solve design problems.
• Obtain an understanding of the aesthetics of illustration and of the history and current state of design. 

• Become proficient in the selection and use of relevant technologies and computer software in illustration. Ability to use available software and non-digital processes to sketch, model, and produce an illustration. Design and develop an illustration from sketch to mockup to finished process. 

• Become proficient in presenting work as well as discussing and constructively critiquing the work of others.