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Directed Study

Refine your skills. As a Master of Fine Arts degree candidate, you’ll complete course assignments to develop the conceptual, design, and technical skills needed to successfully complete your MFA Thesis Project and/or portfolio. You must have passed your midpoint review. Director approval required. Fees and prerequisites will vary by topic.

Package Design 2: Executing 3D Design

Package design is the part of a brand that you actually touch. Building upon Package Design 1, you’ll make more effective use of your design skills to align branding concepts to more complex three-dimensional design formats.

Thesis 3 – Refinement

The final step in your graphic design thesis project is refining everything for final delivery. You’ll finish any remaining thesis materials, coordinate them with your final portfolio and online persona, and then create a final review presentation to secure approvals.(This course is cross-listed with GR 810 and GR 830.)

Visual Systems 1

Expand your design skills into complex business, cultural, and sociological systems. Your formal design abilities, conceptual fluency, and technical know-how will enable you to construct meaningful imagery and resonant experiences that can be extended into broader patterns of reader and user engagement.

Typography 2: Formalizing Structure

Transform text into visually engaging communications for both print and screen experiences. Building on Typography 1, you’ll focus on building more complicated typographic compositions through an understanding of page and paragraph aesthetics, legibility across various media, typographic expression, and integration of visual imagery.

Design Seminar/Portfolio

The portfolio is the final step in your Graphic Design program. You’ll develop a comprehensive print and digital visual system that shows off your design skills and a robust social media presence to effectively promote your strengths to the world. (This course is cross-listed with GR 875.)

Professional Practices for Designers and Advertisers

As a graphic design, interaction and UI/UX design, or advertising student, you’ll create a personal career plan that focuses on professional practices and common business issues shared by these three affiliated fields.

Strategies for Branding

Brands are the means by which organizations differentiate themselves. Building on skills learned in Branding Principles, you will find new ways to bring brands to life, extend brands into new territory, and make brands more interesting, engaging, and relevant.

Graphic Design 1: Visual Communication

Great graphic designers are creative problem solvers with passion and perseverance. Through research and experimentation, you’ll learn to attack myriad problems from multiple angles, and gain the skills to develop solutions for a variety of audiences.

Thesis 2 – Exploration

Continue your graphic design thesis journey by means of exploration and implementation. Building on the assets created in Thesis 1, you’ll finalize a visual system and complete half of your designated thesis materials. You’ll conduct user testing to refine, focus, and validate your solutions. (This course is cross-listed with GR… Read More