The program integrates coursework in graphic design, digital media design, and environmental design into a dynamic interdisciplinary studio concentration. By practicing design in an expanded field, students gain comprehensive experience with a wide range of process-oriented skills, including conceptual development, visual rhetoric, formal experimentation, and critical thinking.
Program Learning Outcomes
Students will:
Apply skills to generate design work through methodologies of process, production, and experimentation
Synthesize design research and scholarship in history, theory and criticism
Demonstrate fluency with diverse media and their accompanying technologies, along with the ability to accommodate new technologies as they emerge
Articulate the role of design and the function of the designer as a leader in the social, cultural, and political landscape
Engage in the practice of design professionalism and collaboration
