• Graphic Design core requirements (fall/spring)
• Liberal Arts or non-major studio electives (fall/spring)
• Wintersession course (winter)

Sophomores
In your first year in the program, you will explore graphic form: its visual principles, tools, media and history, while also beginning in-depth study of typography (anatomy of letterforms, hierarchy, legibility and typographic structures).

• Graphic Design core requirements (fall/spring)
• Concentration or open elective (spring)
• Liberal Arts electives (fall/spring)
• Wintersession course (winter)

Juniors
As a junior, you will develop a strong understanding of how visual communication can effectively express content through conceptual thinking in areas such as communication theory, visual systems and information design. Work with more complex levels of information, integrating type and image, and book design helps advance your typographic proficiency.

• Graphic Design core and concentration elective requirements (fall/spring)
• Non-major studio elective (fall)
• Degree Project* (spring)
• Liberal Arts electives (fall/spring)
• Wintersession course (winter)

* for BFA, not BGD, candidates

Seniors
During the final year of the BFA program, principles are put into practice through intensive studio and elective courses addressing specific areas of graphic design. Your work in typography will extend into expressive and experimental studies in both print and time-based areas, and you will focus on a self-defined degree project that draws on your personal interests.

• Graphic Design core and concentration electives (fall/spring)
• Degree Project (spring)
• Open electives (fall/spring)
• Wintersession courses (winter)

Fifth-years
As a Bachelor of Graphic Design (BGD) candidate, you will focus on professional practice, with an emphasis on business ethics, practical applications, teamwork and production of print and digital media.