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Dec 05, 2024
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2024-2025 Catalog
Design Major
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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.
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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
Major Requirements (49 units)
Design Studio Electives (8 units)
Students complete two of the following:
Design Seminar Electives (4 units)
Students complete one of the following:
Design Internship (2 units)
Complete the following:
Senior Design Project (4 units)
Complete the following:
Professional Practice in Design (2 units)
Complete the following:
Optional Elective
The 1-unit Art + Architecture lecture series does not count towards program requirements.
Junior Year
Fall |
Units |
Upper Division Design Studio Elective |
4 |
Upper Division Design Seminar Elective |
4 |
Core |
4 |
Core |
4 |
Total Semester Units |
16 |
Spring |
Units |
Upper Division Design Studio Elective |
4 |
Core |
4 |
Core |
4 |
Core |
4 |
Total Semester Units |
16 |
Senior Year
*This information is subject to change, the degree planner is a sample, and students should consult with the department for any updated information.
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