B.A. in Sequential Art
Savannah, USA
DURATION
180 Hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
USD 41,130 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* full-time student, three courses per quarter
Introduction
Virtuosos of the visual narrative, sequential artists enchant, engage, and enrapture audiences with richly drawn worlds in comic books, graphic novels, comic strips, video games, films, and more. At SCAD, sequential art students learn to weave and wield the power of story and visuals in a program so highly revered it has been called "the Harvard of comics" by Philadelphia Weekly, recognized by USA Today, and named among the three institutions from which Marvel Comics recruits the most editors. Students at SCAD, the world's first university to offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees in sequential art, explore every style and genre imaginable through a comprehensive curriculum incorporating traditional techniques with advanced technology and specialized digital applications.
Admissions
Curriculum
Foundation studies: 20 hours
- DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
- DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
- DRAW 101 Drawing II: Composition and Media
- DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
General education: 90 hours
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- DIGI 130 Digital Communication
- ARTH 207 20th-century Art
- BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
- PHIL 301 Aesthetics
- ARLH or ARTH elective
- ENGL elective
- ENGL elective
- General education elective
- General education elective
- General education elective
- Mathematics/natural sciences elective
- Social/behavioral sciences elective
- Social/behavioral sciences elective
Major curriculum: 50 hours
- SEQA 100 Introduction to Sequential Art
- SEQA 202 Drawing for Sequential Art
- SEQA 205 Survey of Sequential Art
- SEQA 215 Materials and Techniques for Sequential Art
- SEQA 224 Character Design and Storyboarding for Animation
- SEQA 244 Comic Book Scripting
- SEQA 277 Digital Coloring and Lettering Applications for Comics
- SEQA 325 Environments, Props, and Structures
- SEQA 382 Visual Storytelling I
- Select one of these three options:
- SEQA 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
- SEQA 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
Additional electives: 20 hours
Total course of study: 180 hours
Career Opportunities
Become a cartoonist. Become a character designer. Become a concept artist. Become a production artist. Sequential artists combine the narrative skills of a writer with the drawing skills of an illustrator to tell impactful stories that define generations.
Launch your career as a professional:
- Storyboard artist
- Publisher/editor
- Character/creature designer
- Children’s book artist
- Comic book artist
- Graphic novelist
- Prop/asset designer
- Production artist
- Concept artist
Get recruited and hired by the best of the best:
- Marvel Comics
- DC Comics
- Disney
- DreamWorks Animation
- Cartoon Network
- Top Cow Productions
- Floyd County Productions
- Nickelodeon
- Dark Horse Comics
- Vertigo Comics
- Hasbro
- NPR
- Oni Press
- Image Comics
- FX