• 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.
  • 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