Scientific Illustration Zuyd University of Applied Sciences

Overview

The Scientific Illustration program at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences is an international study programme in which you will meet students from European countries and beyond. It is a cooperation between Zuyd University of Applied Science and the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Maastricht University.

Students at Scientific Illustration from Zuyd University of Applied Sciences will:

• create a scientifically correct image

• be capable of communicating with specialists from different scientific fields, understanding the scientific problem and then be able to convert it into visualization for a specific target audience. 

• not only be trained in anatomy and medical nomenclature but you’ll also be guided in the field of communication.

• build up experience in making abstractions and schematisations of the reality to create an image that tells the scientific story in the best possible way.

The themes

The study programme consists of three themes:

• Man
• Animal
• Surgical intervention in man and animal 

Each of the themes consists of three to five components and each component involves one or more assignments, which deal with various aspects of scientific illustration and in which various traditional visualization techniques are practised and applied. The assignments are graded in terms of complexity, leading up to the level required for professional practice