Advanced coursework in typography, web design, illustration and computer art allows students to customize the program to their specific focus. Students' training and completed portfolios will enable them to begin or continue with their professional design career, or continue on to an M.F.A. design program. The program culminates in a graduate graphic design exhibition and thesis statement that presents students' design work and development as designers.

Students completing the program will be able to:

• Understand and skillfully apply selected media, techniques, and technology in the production and presentation of artwork.
• Use knowledge of characteristics of visual art to effectively convey their ideas.
• Effectively choose and evaluate selected subject matter, symbols and ideas as content for works of art, and develop unified bodies of work.
• Reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work in relationship to the visual arts, history, culture and other disciplines.
• Communicate in a professional setting, in written and oral form, about a unified body of work selected for exhibition.