视觉传达是指通过文字和图像的组合来传达信息和思想。平面设计师使用这些元素来组织复杂的信息，以便说服，娱乐和教育多样化的受众。他们与其他领域的专业人员合作，以帮助实现这些目标，并在需要交流的地方建立职业。芝加哥洛约拉大学美术系的视觉交流计划为学生提供了进入设计专业的机会，这些专业的毕业生应聘于平面设计工作室，内部设计团队，品牌公司，文化机构和其他创意机构。学生通过严格的课程学习图形设计的历史，理论和实践，涵盖专业人士所需的基本知识。该课程的毕业生在品牌和企业形象，广告，网页设计，动态图形，界面设计，包装设计
Visual Communication means the communication of information and ideas through a combination of text and image. Graphic designers use these elements to organize complex information in order to persuade, to entertain, and to educate a diverse audience. They work collaboratively with professionals in other fields to help meet these goals, building careers wherever communication is important. The visual communication program in the Fine Arts Division at Loyola University Chicago prepares students to enter the workforce as design professionals, with graduates employed in graphic design studios, internal design teams, branding firms, cultural institutions, and other creative agencies. Students learn graphic design history, theory, and practice, in a rigorous program that covers the essentials needed by professionals. Graduates of the program have career opportunities in branding and corporate identity, advertising, web design, motion graphics, interface design, package design, mobile interactive design, digital product design, exhibit design, print and publication design, and more. The history of graphic design is closely interwoven with the history of art, from the development of writing and record-keeping, to the invention of printing processes that were used by fine artists who also designed advertising posters, through the Bauhaus School and up to the present day when the computer has become a common tool for art and design. Allied studio art and art history programming provides opportunities for the development of an interdisciplinary approach, and a required internship gives students hands-on experience in the field.