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The Fine Arts - Illustration Pathway includes the Fine Art core curriculum with specific illustration courses as electives. Coursework builds a foundational education to transfer to a 4-year illustration or animation degree program or to take on commercial projects.
The Fine Arts - Illustration Pathway is designed to provide students with the essential skills that are typically learned in the first two years of a 4-year degree program. Students will be prepared to transfer into 4-year bachelor degree programs in Illustration or Animation or build a studio-based career.
Students who graduate from this program will be able to:
- Apply the skills, tools and vocabulary of their chosen discipline in order to create work that exhibits developing technical ability, substance and artistic distinction.
- Articulate ideas, formulate arguments, question assumptions, and demonstrate the ability to evaluate and interpret information through both written and visual mediums.
- Collaborate with peers and professionals in the arts, thereby broadening a body of knowledge while developing a personal identity as an artist.
- Demonstrate a developing awareness of global, historical, cultural, philosophical and contemporary contexts, as well as the relationship between the artist and community.
Degree Program - First Year
Fall Semester
Spring Semester
Degree Program - Second Year
Fall Semester
Spring Semester
Illustration Pathway
MCC now offers an option for students wishing to explore the discipline of illustration. The suite of courses designed within this pathway equip students with the skills essential for visual storytelling, world building, character design, and more. The pathway prepares students to take on commercial projects, while also giving them the education needed to successfully transfer to other bachelors-level illustration degree programs.
Students in the Illustration Pathway must take the following courses instead of the Fine Arts Elective options within the Fine Arts Degree Program: