Introduces design thinking and design methods, with a focus on design process.

Introduces a variety of technology and software used by design professionals.

Explore the fundamental principles and methods of 2D design making, including an introduction to software.

Introduction to theories, principles, methods, techniques, tools, and software for 3D design.

Introduction to theories, methods, and techniques for designing time-based and interactive experiences, including video, motion graphics, and web and mobile applications.

Lecture/seminar/studio course. Introduces the fundamental principles, conventions,and techniques of graphic design.

Explore the vocabulary, principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.

Build upon vocabulary, principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.

Refine and apply vocabulary, principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.

Explore the broad social, economic, technological, and political forces that shape design, and how design influences the human experience in today's world. Examine the critical discourse surrounding the creation, production, consumption, and interpretation of design.

Explore the influence of design in daily life, its impact on society, and how design disciplines shape the world through purposeful choices and creative practices.

Lecture/seminar course. Introduces design theory and criticism, examining how people's beliefs and values inform the way they make, understand, and evaluate works of design.

Studio course. Introduction to the design process, including research, ideation, prototyping, critique, and iteration. Projects also introduce the vocabulary, principles, strategies, techniques, and conventions of drawing and rendering used by design professionals.

Examine the role of research in the design process, and explore a variety of research methods.

Develop a portfolio of work to present for feedback.

Studio course. Projects introduce the vocabulary, principles, strategies, techniques, and conventions of color, composition, rendering, photography, and typography used by design professionals.

Studio course. Projects introduce techniques and theories for designing time-based and interactive experiences, including video, motion graphics, and web/mobile applications.

Introduction to fundamental typographic elements: visual composition and form-making, sequence and narrative, and contrast and hierarchy. Final project is a portfolio to be submitted for sophomore performance review.

Studio course. Introduction to fundamental typographic elements: visual composition and form-making; sequence and narrative; and contrast and hierarchy.

Introduction to the history of design, with a focus on key themes and ideas.

Introduction to theories, principles, methods, and techniques for industrial design in a studio format.

Introduction to elements, techniques, processes, and tools for sketching in design practice. Explore sketching as a way to convey ideas.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the Design Assistant Chair of the Department of Art and Art History. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Lecture/seminar/studio course. Introduces cultural and aesthetic theories pertinent to design, as well as research methods for generating and prototyping ideas.

Studio course. Explores the selection and creation of images appropriate to specific communication goals and contexts, such as promotional images, infographics, logos, instructions, and/or narratives.

Develop a portfolio of work to present for feedback.

Studio course. Involves researching a contemporary social issue; define an area of opportunity; and design graphics, objects, services, and/or systems that respond ethically to the issue.

Explore contemporary color notation systems and color management techniques. Survey economic, health and safety, environmental, cultural, legal, political, and other ethical considerations pertinent to using color.

Lecture/studio course. Lectures and projects introduce problem-framing and problem-solving techniques and a variety of design research, ideation, prototyping, and iterative methods.

Studio course. Projects introduce the fundamental principles, conventions, and techniques of typography.

Studio course. Projects introduce rendering and prototyping techniques used for solving problems in three-dimensional media such as product design, packaging design, environmental graphics, and/or architectural/landscape design.

Studio-based exploration of the iterative development of low-resolution immersive environments.

Studio-based exploration of the print environment, and build technical skills and process management skills.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the Design Assistant Chair of the Department of Art and Art History. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Exploration of innovative topics in design.

Develop and review a portfolio of work, guided by feedback from the instructor, group critiques, and reviews with visiting critics.

Studio course. Projects introduce theories, methods, and techniques for designing time-based and interactive experiences, including video, motion graphics, and web/mobile applications.

Explore theories, methods, and techniques for designing time-based and interactive experiences, including video, motion graphics, and web and mobile applications.

Studio course. Students use typographic principles to design complex print and on-screen publications.

Lecture/seminar course. Surveys the history of graphic and/or industrial design from c.1450 to the present, with an emphasis on the last 150 years.

Lectures and discussions focusing on specialized or advanced topics in the history of design.

Survey the history of graphic design from c.3000 BCE to the present, with an emphasis on the last 200 years.

Surveys the history of industrial design from 1750 to the present, with an emphasis on the last 150 years.

Introduces a variety of research methods in design history.

Survey the history of graphic design from c.3000 BCE to the present, with an emphasis on the last 200 years.

Examine specialized or advanced topics in design.

Examine advanced topics in the study of cultural, aesthetic, and practice-based theories pertinent to design.

Development of flexible, integrated design systems such as identities, wayfinding, and service design.

Examine the relationship between business and graphic design to simplify, unify, and amplify a brand's identity in a studio format.

Examine the relationships between research, strategy, identity, human-centered design, and storytelling to articulate and communicate a brand's purpose in a studio format.

Studio course. Explores the purposes and constraints of branding and visual identity design, and creative systems that can be applied consistently across media and materials.

Exploration of advanced issues in typography.

Studio course. Advanced projects in typography; introduction to type design, material explorations, environmental type design, and expressive distortion

Development and presentation of coherent informational and persuasive visual statements.

Studio course. Explores ways to communicate information accurately, clearly, and persuasively through informational graphics and data visualization.

Studio course. Students use insights gleaned from comparison research, user testing, and/or product reviews to refine existing prototypes or products.

Studio course. Advanced practice in problem-solving, rendering, and prototyping in three-dimensional media, such as product design, packaging design, environmental graphics, and architectural/landscape design.

Lecture/seminar course. Students propose and carry out original research and writing projects with the aim of submitting their writing for publication.

Studio course. Professional experience solving real-world problems, including commissioned projects, student-initiated projects, and/or pro bono projects.

Studio course. Advanced publishing projects in print and/or digital media.

Studio course. Students devise ways to communicate information accurately, clearly, and memorably.

Lecture/studio course. Students design visually pleasing, responsive, user-centered web and mobile interfaces.

Studio course. Projects focusing on contemporary design practice, featuring approaches and subfields not represented elsewhere in the curriculum.

Studio course. Workshops and projects led by industry professionals, visiting lecturers, and/or University faculty and graduate students, featuring design approaches, subfields, practices, and media.

Studio course. Students design effective user-centered systems and services.

Studio Course. Students undertake advanced projects in interaction design. Topics may include user research, user interface design, service design, usability, and accessibility.

Lecture/seminar course. Students engage with contemporary issues in design through reading, discussion, and writing.

Studio course. Advanced projects in visually pleasing, responsive, user-centered web and mobile interfaces.

Topics in graphic design.

Examine the relationship between the built environment and typography, image, symbol, material, and visual storytelling in the context of artistic, social, and cultural movements in a studio format.

Examine communication through physical material and space. Explore topics such as experiential design, branded environments, and exhibition design in a studio format.

Studio-based exploration of the practical, theoretical, and speculative ability for products, objects, digital space, and media to communicate in context of the Internet of Things.

Explore methods and techniques for industrial design.

Build upon methods and techniques for industrial design.

Refine and apply methods and techniques for industrial design.

Examine advanced theories, principles, methods, and techniques for industrial design in a studio format.

Lecture/studio course. Lectures introduce professional practices in design, intellectual property issues, contracts, pricing, accounting, tax preparation, business plans, promotion, etc.

Introduces students to ethical standards and professional practices in design; allows completion of an approved professional internship.

Participate in a professional design internship in a field of interest.

Studio course. Students define their own research problem and propose appropriate design solutions, guided by feedback from desk critiques with the instructor, group critiques, and reviews with a visiting critic.

Define research problem and propose appropriate design solutions, guided by feedback from desk critiques with the instructor, group critiques, and reviews with a visiting critic.

Lecture/internship course. Resume and portfolio preparation; discussion of professional ethics and responsibilities; professional internship.

Studio course. Students define their own research problem and propose appropriate design solutions, guided by feedback from desk critiques with the instructor, group critiques, and reviews with a visiting critic.

Develop, curate, review, and present a portfolio of original design work.

Studio course. Students collaboratively curate, design, and install a senior BFA exhibition, and publish collateral materials that publicly showcase their capstone projects.

Curate, design, and install a showcase of design projects.

Student-defined projects completed under faculty supervision.

Introduction to design process, research, and methodologies.

Practice laboratory for a variety of design methodologies.

Context and structured dialogue regarding areas of, and the student's own direction in, graduate research.

Covers portfolio creation and other tools related to documenting and communicating design work.

Thinking, writing and talking about design.

Explore design approaches, subfields, practices, and media through workshops, projects or lectures led by industry professionals, visiting instructors, and/or University faculty and graduate students.

Explore methods, frameworks, and practice in giving and receiving feedback in a design studio setting.

Consider materials in design applications.

Explore generative and evaluative methods for design research, research synthesis techniques, and the design of research field studies for design applications.

Examine theory and methods in design.

Explore the social, political, historical, legal and economic contexts of design.

Introduction to design-related resources on campus including the Library, materials lab, fabrication lab, and publication studio.

Explore principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.

Build upon principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.

Refine and apply advanced principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.

Culminate previous knowledge of principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.

Introduction to vocabulary, principles, strategies, techniques and conventions foundational to design in a studio format.

Build upon vocabulary, principles, strategies, techniques and conventions foundational to design in a studio format.

Refine vocabulary, principles, strategies, techniques and conventions foundational to design in a studio format.

Studio-based exploration of techniques and concepts specific to visual design.

Studio-based exploration of techniques and concepts specific to interaction design.

Studio-based examination of techniques and concepts specific to industrial design.

Studio-based exploration of techniques and concepts specific to service design.

Develop studio projects focusing on specialized or advanced topics or methods.

Projects developed by visiting designer on technique and concepts related to their practice in a studio format.

Professional design internship in a field of the student's interest.

A preliminary foundation in the emerging practice of human-centered design, the methodology driving design thinking as a way of achieving innovation across sectors.

Examine specialized or advanced topics in design.

Examine specialized or advanced topics in service design.

Examine specialized or advanced topics in industrial design.

Examine specialized or advanced topics in interaction design.

Examine specialized or advanced topics in visual design.

Collaborate with clients in teams, and apply design skills to immediate challenges in the health space.

Explore the frameworks for good storytelling as applied to professional presentation and written work.

Explore 2D Visualizations tools for print and screen.

Explore tactics and techniques of several common primary research methodologies including contextual inquiry, intercept interviews, personal inventories, empathy modeling, and others.

Examine the elements of sketching to visualize concepts.

Use rapid prototyping methods to test ideas iteratively with an emphasis on products and the built environment.

Designed to provide students with the opportunity to test and expand their design research through writing and various methods of dissemination.

Seminar addressing strategies for communicating design research processes and results to a variety of audiences through vehicles such as exhibitions, scholarly reports, and video recordings.

Investigates current discourse within design studies.

Examine design practices in all areas, and their relationship to research.

Explore aspects of complex health ecosystems. Examine the principles and methods of interconnection. Design future systems that elicit new behaviors.

Explore anthropological and ethnographic tools that can attune practitioners to social and cultural differences and their implications.

Examine nuanced and complex considerations for designing in the health space. Explore design practice and challenging legacy health notions.

Design and lead a project with the guidance of a faculty member.

Examine current health law and policy.

Students conduct fieldwork as part of a collaborative research team and/or under the direction of a project supervisor.

Explore the integration of design into business and business into design.

Apply design thinking to service-based sectors such as hospitality, healthcare, food service and others.

Covers theory and research related to the pedagogy of design. Explores creation of design learning experiences.

Applied teaching in design subjects.

Utilize design methodologies and techniques on an applied project.

Training and teaching under the close supervision of the course instructor for one semester; group meetings with the instructor, individual consultations, and reports throughout the teaching period.