The curriculum offers an introduction to all of the visual arts professions offered by the School of Art and Design and helps prepare students to choose an undergraduate course of study. Drawing is a visual tool for expression, description and communication whether on paper or virtual modes of representation. Our drawing program at NIU will help you build on your drawing skills starting with object representation to interpretation to conception. Through intensive studio practice, you will develop portfolio pieces that explore concepts of narrative image, abstraction, socio-political engagement, globalism and deconstructing identity. Our drawing program fosters contemporary approaches by incorporating new technologies with traditional approaches to materials and methods. We encourage you to expand your methodologies to drawing to include performance, installation, video, animation and photography. As a student in the drawing program, the drawing faculty will encourage and support you to expand your knowledge of materials, processes and historical precedents.