To present students with the opportunity to make personal creative choices at every
point in the consensual/technical process.  The result should be a series of images
that reflect the student's personal interests and technical abilities. Assessment of
overall accomplishments is formulated during intense discussion at studio critiques
occurring regularly throughout the semester.  Students and instructor interact as a
group during these critiques.

In most of the other courses, students are forced to move quickly from project to
project, from idea to idea.  The emphasis necessarily being to expose students to as
wide a variety of creative situations as possible.  So there hasn't been the time to
explore and develop a personal approach to image making vital to a successful career in
illustration.  Giving students experience with that creative evolutionary
process is the purpose of Advanced Illustration.