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NIC 2015/16 Fine Arts & Design
FINE ARTS & DESIGN
Design to be the best at NIC Match your passion for design and your love for technology with NIC’s Interactive Media programs. Explore your career options with short, relevant courses while you build your portfolio, connect with employers and gain in-demand skills at NIC. Our programs are full of possibilities - just like you.
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For more information or to register, visit www.nic.bc.ca/finearts | 250-334-5000
FINE ARTS DIPLOMA
COMMUNICATION DESIGN DIPLOMA
WEB DESIGN CERTIFICATE
Experiment, discover, and explore your artistic expression through a broad range of mediums, from photography and digital visual art to sculpture and ceramics. Develop problem solving and critical thinking abilities.
Learn to design commercially effective print and online communications. Gain applied experience through optional workplace practicums that give you industry experience and connections.
Get your web design career started in just eight months. Gain skills in HTML, CSS, Java Script, PHP and Database. Explore web analytics and social media, and learn the fundamentals of effective design, web tools and graphics, basic marketing, business foundations and more.
2 years full time
2 years full time
8 months full time
$2,795 approx / year
$2,850 approx
$2,850 approx
Entry-level positions in painting, sculpture, photography, print making or ceramics, graphic design, animation, illustration, theatre or set design, video, or film.
Work as a book and editorial designer, online or print publication designer, graphic designer, web designer, digital artist, brand identity designer and more.
Work as a freelance/ corporate web designer, database technician or front-end web developer.
Transfer to degree programs in BC and across Canada, including Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Earn credit toward NIC’s Advanced Communication Design diploma, or transfer to VIU’s BA, Graphic Design major.
Earn credit toward NIC’s Web and Mobile Application Development diploma.
Eng 12 C+, portfolio, admissions essay
Eng 12 C
Eng 12 C
Intaglio Printmaking (FIN-215) Fall 2016 | Tue | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Explore exciting new techniques in experimental and traditional printmaking including: monotype, collograph, etching and photogravure in NIC’s dynamic Fine Arts printmaking studios. Sculpture I (FIN-230)
EXPLORE FINE ARTS AT NIC As a fine arts student, you will enjoy access to Shadbolt Studios, a modern, 7,510 square foot building which includes separate ceramics, painting and sculpture studios, fully equipped MAC labs, a large-format jaguar printing press and a textile screen print lab.
Fall 2016 | Fri | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Express yourself through contemporary and traditional sculpture methods, including construction and welding, modeling and casting. There will also be opportunities to experiment with wood, clay, plaster.
Fall 2016 | Thu | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Explore clay as an expressive and functional medium, relating to twentieth century ideas and concepts. Firing processes will include electric kilns, pit firing, raku and high fire reduction Photography II (FIN-245) Fall 2016 | Wed | 1 - 5 pm Expand your appreciation of and control over the photographic medium as an expressive, interpretive and metaphorical art form in this studio class emphasizing learning through experience.
For a full list of NIC’s Fine Arts courses, visit: www.nic.bc.ca/fallcourses
WEB & MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT DIPLOMA
MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE
Develop design skills for print and web, programming, mobile and web development and project management. Take part in optional work place practicums to expand your professional experience and industry connections.
Advance your previously acquired programming skills for the rapidly changing mobile applications industry. Take your experience to the next level and learn the fundamentals of application development for smartphones, tablets and web.
2 years full time
8 months full time
$2,960 approx average / year
$3,065 approx
Qualify for work as a web applications designer/developer, e-commerce site developer, mobile application developer, web analytics specialist and more.
Qualify to work as a mobile app developer, front-end web designer or interactive media programmer.
Advance your skills with NIC’s Mobile Application Development certificate.
Eng 12 C
3D Applications (Ceramics I) (FIN-235)
Eng 12 C
Expand your creative potential by studying
Fine Arts at NIC “I love what I do. There’s a real place for creative problem solving, critical thinking and design in so many careers. When I look at my time at NIC, I know studying fine arts was worth it. “ Sylwia Gustyn NIC Fine Arts diploma graduate