The Department of Communication Arts B.F.A. program centers on the powerful and timeless relationship between image and story. If your goal is to become a professional character designer, concept artist or creature designer for films or games, an illustrator for publishers and advertisers, a graphic novelist, or scientific illustrator, this could be the right major for you. With a rich history rooted in drawing, painting and art theory, the Communication Arts program is effectively tailored to provide students opportunities to develop the variety of creative skills, techniques and understandings most relevant and sought after in the expanding universe of communication medias. Now more than ever, success grows from relationships and networks of friends and colleagues. The Comm Arts department is, at its core, a diverse community of supportive, inclusive and highly motivated creatives who understand the power and value of supporting one another's artistic dreams.