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Digital Art And Media

Bachelor of Arts
Minor

With a bachelor’s in digital art and media, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of artistic techniques, principles and applications in the context of today’s digital media landscape.

Our program in digital art and media is designed for illustrators, filmmakers, designers, storytellers and more who have an interest in applying their artistry in diverse settings like advertising, publishing, website design and more. Our graduates hone their personal style and artistic process, as well as the ability to adapt to the specific needs of a workplace or client.

Choose a concentration

Our major in digital art and media is divided into two tracks: graphic design and video and animation. Students in both tracks take a series of introductory courses that build drawing, design and technical skills and engage artistic styles that encompass both western and nonwestern traditions. Our digital art and media students graduate prepared to apply professional standards of exhibition, presentation and portfolio development.

Graphic Design

Students who concentrate in graphic design focus on print and still images, taking courses in typography, web design and sports and retail branding that prepare them for roles in corporate communications, marketing and more.

Video and Animation

Students who concentrate in video and animation examine the practical and theoretical elements of moving images – taking courses in film studies, advanced digital editing and 3D modeling.

Curriculum Requirements

Requirements for a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Digital Art and Media

Required courses:
AR 130 Drawing I
AR 223 Drawing and Illustration for Design
AR 330 Digital Photo and Post-Production
AR 340 Visual Story Telling
CA 100 Introduction to Mass Media
CA 130 Introduction to Digital Media
CA 285 Digital Layout and Design
CA 435 Digital Media Professional

Digital Art and Media students who choose the Graphic Design concentration also take:
AR 101 or 102 Caves to Cathedrals or Art History II: Baroque to Present
AR 334 Typography
CA 235 Web Design
CA 325 Digital Deliberation and Remix
CA 301 Sports and Retail Branding

Digital Art and Media students who choose the Video and Animation concentration also take:
CA 200 Film Studies
CA 255 Documentary Studies
CA 309 Advanced Digital Editing
AR 3D Modeling
AR Animation

Electives include:
AR 139 Outside the Box: Package Design
CA 251 Media Effects
AR 240 Sculpture I
AR 338 Printmaking I
CA 230 Writing for Media
CA 270 Children’s Books on Film
AR / CA 550 Internship

Your Degree at Work

Saint Vincent College digital art and media program graduates have gone on to start successful careers – you’ll find our alumni now work at prestigious organizations like the Pittsburgh Penguins, American Eagle Outfitters and Penguin Random House, along with various regional and national marketing agencies.

Career Options:

Book Illustrator
Character Designer/Modeler
Character Animator
Videographer
Web Designer
App Designer
Video Editor
Video and Print Editor
Documentary Film Maker
Motion and Sound Designer
Advertising Professional
Digital Marketing Professional
New Media Artist
Motion Graphics Designer
Storyboard Artist
User Interface Designer
User Experience Designer
Art Director

Spotlight

Each and every faculty in our digital art and media program is committed to helping students succeed, and as practitioners in the field, they bring their first-hand experience to the classroom. By incorporating a video resume project into his lesson plan each year, communication professor David Safin prepares his students to enter the professional world post-graduation.

Jenny Myers '20

Designer @ Allegis Group
Hometown: Ellicott City, Maryland

“My senior year I was placed in a class far, far outside my comfort zone. My professor, Mr. Safin, was so helpful and understanding of the learning curve it would take to catch me up to the rest of the class. He was an awesome resource, and I was able to finish a project that I was incredibly proud of. Saint Vincent College taught me so much about hard work, dedication, sticking to my core values, communication skills and so much more. As a designer now, I am so thankful for the classes, teachers, and opportunities to grow professionally.”

Real-World Experience

Projects

Digital art and media majors curate and hang an exhibition of their work alongside other graduating art majors in a senior exhibition in The Saint Vincent Gallery. The senior exhibitions take place during a student’s last spring semester at Saint Vincent College and is a great opportunity to showcase the collective talent of our students.

Internships

Outside of the classroom, digital art and media students at Saint Vincent College have a variety of opportunities to refine and display their skills. Digital art and media internships are available on and off campus. Our students work in The Saint Vincent Galley and are a part of MAD COMM, a student club that helps other on-campus clubs and organizations refine their visual presence.

Service

Saint Vincent College faculty take every chance they can to integrate opportunities for students to give back to the community through their hard work. In his art classes, Br. Mark Floreanini takes his students to a local senior care home for an afternoon of drawing portraits of residents' faces. It’s a lesson in drawing fundamentals, but most importantly, it’s a chance to engage with senior citizens and spread happiness and connect with the community through art.

Facilities

Verostko Center for the Arts

Saint Vincent College’s Verostko Center for the Arts is over 5,000 square feet dedicated to the advancement and integration of the arts on our campus and home to the largest concentration of work by 20th century digital art pioneer, Roman Verostko. Hosting both rotating exhibits that present works by contemporary artists, as well as selections from Saint Vincent’s 4000 object permanent collection which includes nearly 200 European paintings from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries gifted on behalf of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, works by artists from Pennsylvania and the wider Mid-Atlantic, prints by 20th century modern artists, carvings from Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Pre-Columbian, Ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman artifacts.

Eulalia Books

Affiliated with the undergraduate Literary Translation minor at Saint Vincent College, Eulalia Books is an independent publisher of literary translations with particular interests in contemporary poetry and hybrid-genre works and publishing ex-centric and ecstatic work that has never before appeared in English translation. Eulalia publishes a poetry series that is produced entirely by students and creates opportunities for poets, artists and designers alike in the Saint Vincent Community.

The Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery

Located on the bottom floor of the Fred Rogers Center, is one of the premier coverlet collections in the country. The McCarl Coverlet Gallery is a non-profit cultural organization that collects, presents, interprets and disseminates the history of weaving and folk tradition in the Northeastern region of the United States. Our students have the opportunity to carry out research exhibits, publications, educational events and interpretive projects among this prized collection of antique American coverlets.

Threshold Series

Saint Vincent’s Threshold Series is as an ongoing series of lectures and cultural events established in 1981. Past lecturers have included Isaac Asimov, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jane Bryant Quinn, Benjamin Zander, Alex Haley, Ralph Nader, Heinz-Joachim Fischer, Michael Medved, Claire Bloom, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Cornel West, and more.

Fred Rogers Center

The Fred Rogers Center encourages the integration of digital media with learning to help adults and children understand how to use technology. Incubator 143, an undergraduate research and development group named after Fred’s favorite number (which for him symbolized the number of letters in “I love you”), focuses on creating positive change for children’s development by integrating cross-disciplinary work. Students from psychology, education, communication, music, film, design, history and theology engage in research and service in the lab and in communities, including through developing posters about Fred Rogers’s messages in the digital age, and most recently, creating a brochure in conjunction with local healthcare agency, Excela Health, to help families experiencing grief.