Bachelor's Degree — Visual Communication

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising and Design

The IADT Online Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Advertising and Design can give you the opportunity to develop the skills you'll need in the advertising career field. As a student, you can learn skills like page layout, Web design, digital illustration and storyboarding. Comprehensive coursework combined with a real-world internship allows you to learn from the ground up while you develop the skills you'll need in the field.

Earning your degree in Advertising and Design at IADT Online can help get you involved in marketing fashion products, examining consumer choices, determining how to sell to a particular market or using the Internet to launch a creative advertising campaign.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design

The IADT Online Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Graphic Design is designed to provide graduates with advanced skills in graphic design that can enable them to keep abreast of the changing and emerging technology and subsequent trends in the industry.

The Graphic Design degree program is structured to help prepare you with a real-world understanding of the roles and responsibilities of today's graphic designers in the modern workplace, including:

• A focus on hands-on projects, professional portfolio, and résumé building.
• The opportunity to gain a mastery of career and industry-relevant skills in advertising, layout, type, color, and illustration.
• An emphasis on industry-current technology including digital illustration and imaging, web and multimedia.

Students will be challenged to examine and apply problem-solving techniques to the visual organization and layout of information and graphics, common business practices, advertising and marketing strategies and art direction.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Web Development

The IADT Online Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Web Development provides advanced studies in web-based technologies, 3D modeling and animation, and new media techniques while supplementing those skills with such subjects as advanced web programming, database management and dynamic website systems. Additional general education courses are intended to foster critical thinking.

The objective of this online degree program is to prepare students for professional opportunities in the information, design and technology-based communications industries. The program focuses on the use of interactivity and the Internet as a communication medium while incorporating the basic theories of visual and multimedia design.

In this career-focused degree program, students are immersed in the areas of design and technology in order to provide the expertise needed in this field.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication
— Concentration in Digital Design

The Visual Communication online degree program is designed to educate and develop artistic and imaginative students in the fields of commercial art and design. Emphasis is placed on the development of the thinking process and the ability to conceive creative solutions for specified design problems. Students will learn the principles, practical applications and methodologies used in completing competent and creative graphic solutions.

The accelerated Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication online degree program can be completed fast. All required graphics software is included in the cost of course materials, providing students with training in the latest design software necessary to pursue a chosen career upon completion of the degree program.

During the Digital Design curriculum, students will build a portfolio of projects from each of their courses. This final portfolio project allows students to build upon the skills learned in some of the required courses.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication
— Concentration in Web Design

With the rapid expansion of the Internet, the Web now plays an integral role in the operation of modern business. From commerce to communication, entertainment to manufacturing and practically every industry in between, companies now rely on their websites for the day-to-day business operations.

AIU Online's Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Visual Communication offers a concentration in Web Design that can help prepare students to become creative and technically proficient professionals with industry-current knowledge and skills. Some of the key topics covered in the program include basic and advanced techniques of web design, file formats for online delivery, digital graphics, animated web graphics, and interactive software.

This career-focused degree program integrates theory, practice and team-oriented learning to help students develop real-world credentials that can help them in their pursuit of exciting career opportunities.