When you embark on the Graphic Design Pathway, you’ll be immersed in creative, challenging courses across disciplines. Through courses in studio art, art history, computer science and communication, you’ll gain the theoretical and practical foundation for careers in design. In these courses, you will learn the technical skills necessary to effectively communicate your ideas and, just as important, you will gain an understanding of the larger social and ethical considerations of representation.
The Graphic Design Pathway will enable you to forge a career in graphic design, marketing, social media, architecture, fashion, game design or illustration.
Everything in the constructed world was made by a creative author. Designers developed and built the furniture we sit in, the image we see when we open our laptops, the special effects of our favorite movies, the houses we live in. If it’s not natural, it’s design.
To succeed in a graphic design-related industry, you must be able to adapt quickly to change, understand visual information from perspectives other than your own and have a broad range of knowledge and experience.
Designers must be great makers, but also great thinkers, so a liberal arts environment like that at ý is the ideal place for aspiring designers to study, learn technical design skills and understand the historical and contemporary issues relating to design.
A studio-based course to discover theories, techniques and skills to carry over into other visual practices.
An introductory design studio course exploring theories, techniques, and foundational skills essential for diverse design disciplines and creative applications.
Study what lies at the heart of representation – subjectivity, political aims, societal concerns, emotional responses – in Japanese culture.
Investigate contemporary museum practices that will help you understand the ethics of representation and exhibition of cultural artifacts.
Study computer science topics such as computer graphics, graphical user interfaces, modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence and information management systems.
Exploring emerging technologies, the course investigates hardware, software, algorithms, cultivating skills in visual communication, entrepreneurship, branding, and ethical design.
Explore how American women narrate and represent their lives across media, including literature, the graphic novel and fine art.
Learn how the invasion of the Americas and the transatlantic slave trade steered art and visual culture.