Fall 2022 Undergraduate Design Courses

Faculty: Jose Perez / Cathryn Ploehn / Kelcey Gray
Unique Number: 21945 / 21940 / 21950
Explore the vocabulary, principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.

Faculty: Vic Rodriguez Tang
Unique Number: 21935
Explore the fundamental principles and methods of 2D design making, including an introduction to software.

Faculty: Jon Freach
Unique Number: 21960
Students will learn design methods used in practice today by professional designers. Students will develop observational research and inference-making skills, then work in teams using methods that help them investigate the physical, social, cultural, and cognitive human factors of a chosen project topic. The class will also study professional design research deliverables and learn from guests who use design methods in their work.

Faculty: Monica Penick
Unique Number: 21973
Introduction to the history of design, with a focus on key themes and ideas.

Faculty: Jose Perez
Unique Number: 21974
Introduction to elements, techniques, processes, and tools for sketching in design practice. Explore sketching as a way to convey ideas.

Faculty: Henry Smith
Unique Number: 22023
Print Studio is an exploration of printmaking basics across new and old technology, while encouraging students to push the boundaries of the concept of “print.”

Faculty: Jose Perez
Unique Number: 22017
Designers will use CAD software and digital tools to abbreviate the process from concept to physical artifact. Students will utilize additive and subtractive manufacturing processes such as 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC machining to increase the fidelity of their projects.

Faculty: Cata Alzate
Unique Number: 22060
Participate in a professional design internship in a field of interest.

Faculty: TBD
Unique Number: 21955
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.

Faculty: Vic Rodriguez Tang / Cata Alzate
Unique Number: 21980 / 21985 / 21990
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.

Faculty: Carma Gorman
Unique Number: 21994
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.

Faculty: Kelcey Gray / TBD
Unique Number: 22005 / 22000 / 21995
Studio course. Students use typographic principles to design complex print and on-screen publications.

Faculty: Kate Catterall / TBD
Unique Number: 22020 / 22010
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.

Faculty: Scott Witthoft
Unique Number: 22024
Studio-based exploration of the iterative development of low-resolution immersive environments.

Faculty: Cat Ploehn
Unique Number: 22030
Develop and review a portfolio of work, guided by feedback from the instructor, group critiques, and reviews with visiting critics.

Faculty: TBD
Unique Number: 22025
Cross-listed with the Center for Integrated Design. Multiple designers will lead short-term projects that expose students to unique perspectives about design in our current society

Faculty: Peggy Blum
Unique Number: 22019
Cross-listed with Arts and Entertainment Technologies. Learn how the principles of the circular economy can be applied to innovative design methods and business models to reduce waste, minimize social and environmental impacts in the fashion industry.

Faculty: Cata Alzate
Unique Number: 22022
Creative exposure and critique of systems and technologies of surveillance and policing, and design of alternatives for safety rooted in community engagement.

Faculty: Cheryl Miller
Unique Number: 22018
Guided research, investigation and design creation/portfolio prep of color palettes, typography, iconography, culture, and design trends of North American brands in global regions.

Faculty: Jiabao Li
Unique Number: 22021
Decentering the human being in a world of ecological uncertainty and recalibration, this course explores eco-centric design and co-creation with non-human species such as animals, plants, robots.

Faculty: Cat Ploehn
Unique Number: 22035
Explore theories, methods, and techniques for designing time-based and interactive experiences, including video, motion graphics, and web and mobile applications.

Faculty: Carma Gorman
Unique Number: 22040
Surveys the history of graphic design from 1450 to the present, with an emphasis on the last 150 years.

Faculty: Kevin Auer
Unique Number: 22050
Studio course. Advanced publishing projects in print and/or digital media.

Faculty: Sam Lavigne
Unique Number: 22055
Studio course. Projects focusing on contemporary design practice, featuring approaches and subfields not represented elsewhere in the curriculum.

Faculty: Brooke Davis
Unique Number: 22059
Explore methods and techniques for industrial design.

Faculty: Jiabao Li
Unique Number: 22065
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.

Faculty: N/A
Unique Number: 22080
Student-defined projects completed under faculty supervision.

Explore the Center for Integrated Design's undergraduate and graduate course offerings for the Spring 2021 semester.