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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.

Final Thesis Completion

Fundamental design research and implementation are an essential part of the creative process. Using mood boards, experimenting with typography, composition, color, balance, layout, legibility, and more, you’ll define the overall visual style of your thesis project. (This course is cross-listed with IXD 810 and IXD 820.)

Product Innovation with Generative AI

Leverage the potential of Artificial Intelligence in product design! Through an understanding of AI technology and generative AI design principles, you will learn to create adaptive user experiences that seamlessly integrate AI technology and content, culminating in product prototypes and case studies.

Midpoint Portfolio

Your portfolio is everything. You’ll take the first step into creating and presenting your own portfolio website and personal branding system. You’ll revisit, redo, update, revise, and add to past work to create a portfolio that reflects the skills you’ve gained. (This course is cross-listed with ADV 341.)

Balancing Creativity and Profitability

Show that you have mastered the skills to steer the creative direction for an organization’s web or mobile presence. You’ll study what makes an organization’s presence succeed or fail. Read More

User Experience: Human Centered Design

Gain creative problem-solving skills within the frameworks of Design Thinking. You’ll use a human-centered design approach to create innovative, effective, and sustainable interactive products and solutions.

Web Design 1

HTML and CSS are the backbone of the web. As you develop your coding skills, you’ll learn strategies in site architecture, navigation, file management, and more to create highly intuitive websites.

Fall Thesis Development

Learn and apply user experience concepts and processes to your thesis project. Working through all stages of your interactive thesis project with fellow graduate students, you’ll solidify the research, target audience, personas, information architecture, wireframes, and more via an iterative workflow. (This course is cross-listed with IXD 820 and IXD… Read More

Tech 2: Back-End

Students will be introduced to Responsive Design and Database Driven Website Application Development. User Interface, Interaction Design, and Project Management will be put into practice with a combination of Front-end and Back-end code. Languages include HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Javascript.

Masters Portfolio

Create a portfolio that shine. You’ll strengthen the weak points of your portfolio by developing your personal brand, including business cards, a design-focused resume, logo, and a new case-study. You’ll also examine past portfolio projects, changing, removing, and adding to them as necessary.