Visual Communications

Discover the business and technological foundation of enhancing today's messaging with a Visual Communications degree. Earning your degree in Visual Communications will help prepare you for a variety of career choices in multimedia, graphic design, digital imaging (medical), computer animation, and the commercial arts.
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At Westwood College Online, you can choose from more than 18 different programs in a variety of fields. Westwood offers working professionals the ability to enhance their careers by earning a degree around their own schedule. As a premier online college, Westwood's technology programs include: Graphic Design, Software Engineering, Multimedia, Computer Network Management, Game Art, Design and Software, Bachelors in Animation, Flash Animation, Information System Securities, Visual Communications, and more.

American InterContinental University American InterContinental University (AIU) is an accredited institution that offers Associates, Bachelors, and Master degrees online. Degree programs include Business, Education, Criminal Justice, Information Technology, Design, and Visual Communication. AIU's Visual Communication programs help prepare students for such highly creative and in-demand careers as Graphic Design Artists, Multimedia Specialists, Community Arts Development Associates, and many others.

Ashford University Online provides a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Management/Visual Communications degree program online. With an emphasis on organizational management, students learn about strategic planning, financial management, law, marketing, web page design, computer graphics, and more. Students can transfer up to 12 Visual Communications credits toward this degree.

The University of Phoenix Online offers an Associate of Arts in Information Technology/Visual Communication degree program and a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology/Visual Communication degree program. The B.S. program focuses on the business application of visual design elements that include analysis, composition, style, and layout. Coursework also includes the development of digital media presentations.

Those who work in the visual communications fields take art and add a lot of innovative technological style to it. With a Visual Communications degree, you will have studied how to turn regular communication media into fabulous art forms by utilizing digital media, computer animation, typography, and more.

Visual communications began with traditional newspaper design, magazine design, and graphic design, cartooning, photojournalism, and fine art. Having the ability to create powerful media such as newspaper ads, web sites, magazine arts, commercials, and even greeting cards, is more than just knowing computer software. It is about understanding how people view things, what catches the eye, and what will make a telling and outstanding image. From art to magazine and newspaper advertising and from television to web site design, visual communication skills are required.

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