Learn how to turn your artistic interests into a professional career with Southern New Hampshire University’s graphic design and media arts major.
Unlike at fine arts schools, here you can complement graphic design and media arts courses with courses in business, advertising, communication, writing, technology, fashion merchandising, psychology, marketing and many other areas, to better prepare you for your career.
In your courses, you will create:
- logos, logotypes, and symbols.
- advertisements and posters.
- brochures and marketing materials. TV commercials and documentaries.
- Web sites.
- interactive designs.
In addition to minors and course work in other disciplines, you also can choose to focus on optional profession-oriented subject areas:
- Information technology
- Advertising
- Video production
We use the latest design technologies and provide ample opportunities for hands-on experience and collaboration through course work and internships.
Our faculty -- including an award-winning filmmaker, a digital media pioneer, and the lead animator at Segway, to name a few – inform their classes with years of academic and professional experience. You also will network and compete with professionals through our close affiliation with the New Hampshire Creative Club.
Graphic designers are in great demand, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. They work in print, the Web, and multimedia design, and at ad agencies, newspapers, magazines, Internet-hosting companies, corporate and nonprofit marketing departments, broadcast television production studios, and many other kinds of businesses that require top-notch visual communications.
It’s not surprising that SNHU alumni have found rewarding careers. Our students and alumni work for a number of great companies, including:
- WMUR-TV
- BAE Systems
- Timberland
- Segway
- Fox News Network
- Raytheon
- Business NH Magazine
B.A./B.S. Core
School of Arts and Science Course Requirements
COM 230 Graphics and Layout for Print Media
COM 232 Desktop Publishing
COM 421 Communication Theory and Research
FAS 110 Introductory Drawing
FAS 226 Digital Photography
GRA 310 Digital Graphic Design
GRA 320 Introduction to Digital Imaging
GRA 410 Advanced Digital Graphic Design
GRA 420 Advanced Digital Imaging
Choose One:
FAS 320 History of Design
FAS 326 History of Photography
Choose One:
GRA 101 Basic Design and Color Theory
FAS 310 Illustration
SNHU 101 First Year Seminar: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking
Free Electives
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