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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Honors Independent Study/Thesis.
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2.00 Credits
This upper-level course will introduce Communication Design students to the professional development value of self-generated projects and advocate for expanding and/or advancing skillsets appropriate to the students' goals and aspirations. Class participants will identify and investigate an individual project topic suitable for development as well as meet established benchmarks within the course structure. Each student will develop a project proposal for presentation and a workable schedule within class constraints. The final self-generated project and documentation of process will be presented for evaluation at the end of the course. A minimum of 6 hours of work outside of class is required per week. This course may be taught as a full- or half-semester course.
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2.00 Credits
The course will focus on the professional practice and business issues in the Communication Design field. It will address the development of relevant employment and life skills necessary in finding employment in this competitive industry. Materials will be presented through professional presentations, lectures, and demonstrations. A minimum of 6 hours of work outside of class is required by week. This course may be taught as a full- or half-semester course.
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0.00 Credits
Senior Exhibition is a requirement for graduation. All BFA in Communication Design degree candidates must participate in a Spring semester Senior Exhibition before they graduate. Summer and December graduates will exhibit work in the Spring exhibition prior to graduation. Participation in a Senior Exhibition is defined as showing at least one piece/documentation/record within the confines of the display area being used for the exhibition (usually the Miller Gallery in the Sharadin Art Building). Showing work in alternate spaces on campus, and not in the Senior Exhibition, will not satisfy the graduation requirement. (0 credits, Pass/Fail)
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3.00 Credits
This course will allow each MFA candidate to explore individual style, projects, visual techniques, academic, social, cultural interests and intellectual content that has personal meaning to the student. This course will focus on personal creative design exploration. Coursework will emphasis individual visual/creative experimentation and projects created and authored by the student. The MFA candidate will challenge him/herself to resolve complex problems in advertising, interactive, illustration, graphic design and/or other design-related fields in the student's own unique style. This course will require research, visual and conceptual investigation towards the development of the MFA candidate's own voice. Significant analysis will be needed to design the materials for the appropriate target audience.
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3.00 Credits
This course will allow each MFA candidate to review and evaluate his/her concepts, knowledge and skill set and to focus forward to explore new areas of interest that could be utilized in professional practice. Each MFA candidate will be researching advertising design, illustration design, interactive design, graphic design and/or other design fields. Each MFA candidate will select an area for further professional development.
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3.00 Credits
Typography is the art of utilizing letterforms to communicate, to influence and to interpret ideas. Each MFA candidate will explore new and historical interpretations of expression through typography. Emphasis will be placed on expressive typography and experimentation with type. The MFA candidate will use both historic and innovative typographic techniques and media to create unique typographic communication. Typography will be used to communicate as both art and message through experimentation, photography, innovative media, kinetic type, time-based type, expressive artistic creation and computer manipulation. The MFA candidate will be responsible for the research, conception, creation, and manipulation of letterforms in a creative project.
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3.00 Credits
Designers are social commentators of their time. We create in response to the events that are happening around us. A design pioneer is someone who has transformed, or is currently transforming the design industry through his/her aesthetic sensibility, media used and/or technological innovation. This course will assist each MFA candidate in a journey of self-discovery to identify his/her own design influences. Design Pioneers examines graphics designers and movements that are of specific interest to the MFA candidate. This course emphasizes creating a visual project to personally interpret the ideas and concepts presented by past and present design pioneers.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will focus on emerging technological advancements as they relate to the Communication Design industry and design-related fields. Each MFA candidate will analyze how emerging technologies are used to complement and enhance existing methods of communicating for the creation of media solutions. The course content will delve into the newest technologies relating to print, film, video, photography, computer applications and other devices that are moving from experimentation to being adopted by a mainstream audience. Each MFA candidate will create a content message that can be delivered via emerging media technologies and media.
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3.00 Credits
This graduate seminar will focus on current and emerging issues in the design industry as a whole. The course content will require research into topics or issues being widely discussed in relevant publications, conferences, professional groups and through broad online community of design and design-related professionals. The research topic areas may span many different disciplines such as advertising, graphic, interactive, industrial, and product design as well as other areas yet to be added to the design field through new technological innovations. The research generated by each MFA candidate will then be transformed into a meaningful and appropriate form that communicates a position, educates a targeted audience and/or raises professional or public awareness of the design related topic or issue.
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