Beginning Fall 2022, Otis College’s Communication Arts program will evolve into separate Graphic Design and Illustration majors pending formal accreditation approval.
Illustration majors develop a strong personal style in their images and use their image-making skills to support the communication needs of a variety of clients in multiple contexts.
Student Work
Program Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Engage and utilize past and present theories and histories while evidencing professional mastery of relevant methodologies, skills, and tools applied to a broad range of media.
- Cultivate, model, and continuously improve confidence in one's communication skills, including listening, writing, empathizing, negotiating, presenting, critiquing, and reflecting.
- Define, iterate, and evaluate solutions for problems using a forward-thinking and reflective studio practice.
- Apply purposeful risk taking designed to produce content, concepts, and formal outcomes that feed personal passions and professional growth with the aim of positively impacting the future of humanity.
- Demonstrate best professional practices, including editing and presentation of work, networking, time management, project planning, budgeting, and collaboration.
- Actively seek out and utilize cross-disciplinary studies and extracurricular activities so as to grow as a well-rounded artist and engaged citizen of the world.
Assessment Measures
Student learning in Illustration courses is assessed using level-appropriate rubrics and evaluations of presentations, papers, projects, reflections, exhibitions, and Capstone as well as Departmental Programmatic Assessment projects. Collectively these measures allow us to determine the level and quality of education attained by our students.