Program Overview

Visual Communication Design Undergraduate Program (B.A., 4 Years)

Description

The Visual Arts and Communication Design program is a four-year program that aims to develop students' knowledge of design and production with practical work built on an artistic background. The program also motivates students to criticize messages, tools, and media in an artistic, cultural, and social context.

General Information

• The program consists of 36 courses with a total of 125 credit hours.
• Students are required to take 5 compulsory courses from the Faculty of Communication, 3 university electives, and 7 area elective courses to be determined by them.
• The program is divided into three branches: graphic design, web design, and animation graphics.
• Students are also offered the opportunity to apply theory into practice through photography, experimental film, video, and audio design courses, as well as in the TV studio (EMU-TV).

Education

• The Department aims to bring artistic and technical education/creativity together with the advantages of the communication field's interdisciplinary qualities.
• The program aims to develop a student profile who can produce unique and high-quality work/projects using digital media in special fields such as TV, video, cinema, animation by transforming new and recent communication technologies into a creative/artistic process.
• The program also aims to develop students who have an ethical responsibility and are able to analyze any work mentioned above, including the offered core theoretical courses.

Facilities

• The Department mainly uses the basic design workshops and computer labs structured for multimedia and graphic design, and are supported by animation/video design labs and photography studios.
• The program offers opportunities to the other departments of the faculty and the university, while using the faculty's television studios, audio studios, editing suites, and video equipment.

Career Opportunities

• Graduates may work in many areas related to the field of communications, including:
  • Designers in multimedia, animation, graphic or sound design companies
  • Developing websites
  • Working in camera or editing teams at production houses
  • Designing interactive CDs or DVDs
  • Working as professional photographers
  • Creative art directors at advertising agencies
  • Part of the academic field

Contact

• The program is offered by the Department of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University.