Graphic Design - Bachelor of Fine Arts

Program Total Credits: 123

Graphic Design students and faculty are engaged in a collaborative process of exploring new knowledge as it emerges within our media-saturated environment. Because Graphic design lies at the ever-changing intersection of design, media, and culture, the department’s goal is to prepare its graduates with flexibility and transportable knowledge in which communication pathways may have shifted between their first classes and their graduation. In this three-year program, students will be engaged in design problems that also investigate human perception, media behaviors, audience attitudes, and the dynamics of team-based work. In addition, individual expertise is acquired through directed studies in typography, drawing, photography, and emergent media. The curriculum is supplemented by special lecture programs, workshops with invited design firms, on-site studio seminars in selected design offices and studios, paper and printing plants, museums and libraries, and with film and computer graphic producers.