Spring 2023 Courses
102: Introduction to Interaction
Unique: 21625
Instructor: Cathryn Ploehn
Introduces a variety of technology and software used by design professionals.
102: Introduction to 3D Design
Unique: 21630
Instructor: José Perez
Introduces a variety of technology and software used by design professionals.
305: Design Studio II
Unique: 21635 / 21640 / 21645
Instructor: Vic Rodriguez Tang / Brooke Davis / Cathryn Ploehn
Build upon vocabulary, principles and techniques of design across disciplines through project work in a studio setting.
308: Introduction to Design Theory and Criticism
Unique: 21650
Instructor: Carma Gorman
Introduces design theory and criticism, examining how people's beliefs and values inform the way they make, understand, and evaluate works of design.
110T: Harm by Design
Unique: 21651 / 21652 (ITD 21823 / 21824)
Instructor: Elizabeth Riddell
Explore the harm design can do through current and historical examples, ranging from methods, architecture, graphic design, and technology. Discuss responsibility as designers, practitioners, and industry members when it comes to the ethics of projects
314: Intro to Industrial Design
Unique: 21654
Instructor: José Perez
Introduction to theories, principles, methods, and techniques for industrial design in a studio format.
320: Theories and Methods
Unique: 21653
Instructor: Catalina Alzate
Introduces cultural and aesthetic theories pertinent to design, as well as research methods for generating and prototyping ideas.
324: Research Methods
Unique: 21660
Instructor: Jon Freach
326: Objects and Spaces
Unique: 21665
Instructor: Kate Catterall
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.
130T: Exploring Materials in Design
Unique: 21666
Instructor: Kate Catterall
A five-week course designed to introduce students to a variety of fabrication methods, labs and resources across the UT campus. An invaluable opportunity to experiment with a range of materials.
330T: Color and Visual Design
Unique: 21664
Instructor: Honoria Starbuck
Build proficiency in the foundations of visual design by exploring digital and physical spaces as well as AI-generated imagery. Explore how the principles and elements of design and color theory provide foundational and creative tools for emerging art forms. Implement the power of color and visual hierarchy to design projects to intensify visual narrative and engage audience emotions.
330T: Design, Race, and Culture
Unique: 21667
Instructor: Michael Ray Charles
This course will discuss the development, use, and importance of stereotypical imagery in popular culture, in the cultural production by marginalized communities including (but not limited to) art, design and advertising to facilitate or challenge lingering social constructions of “otherness.” Equally, it will discuss celebrated images of beauty, strength, and achievement by marginalized communities intertwined within America’s racial binary structure.
330T: Gender Bias in Design
Unique: 21668
Instructor: Vic Rodriguez Tang
Through a series of methods such as research, making, and critiques, among other techniques, this course invites students to look into their gender biases when it comes to making design choices and ask them to propose ways to challenge their decision-making process.
330T: Bio Design: Speculative Futures
Unique: 21669
Instructor: Jiabao Li
This course offers an interdisciplinary platform for students to engage, collaborate and experiment in regard to biotechnologies and our futures.
330T: Editorial & Magazine Design
Unique: 21673
Instructor: Jeanette Abbink
Applying past learning in typography and interaction, this hands-on studio course teaches the principles and contexts of editorial design related to these critical cultural forms.
330T: Type and Lettermaking
Unique: 21674
Instructor: Kelcey Gray
This course will introduce concepts, technologies, and current issues in the field of typography. Though students will focus on Western typography, they will also explore historical models and examples of letterforms from around the world.
334C: Interaction Design I
Unique: 21675 / 21678
Instructor: Sydney Parks / Cathryn Ploehn
Explore theories, methods, and techniques for designing time-based and interactive experiences, including video, motion graphics, and web and mobile applications.
335: Typography II
Unique: 21679
Instructor: Kelcey Gray
Students use typographic principles to design complex print and on-screen publications.
336: History of Design
Unique: 21680
Instructor: Jennifer Tate
Surveys the history of graphic and/or industrial design from c.1450 to the present, with an emphasis on the last 150 years.
344: Objects and Spaces II
Unique: 21681
Instructor: Brooke Davis
Advanced practice in problem-solving, rendering, and prototyping in three-dimensional media, such as product design, packaging design, environmental graphics, and architectural/landscape design.
346: Project Studio
Unique: 21682
Instructor: Jon Freach
Professional experience solving real-world problems, including commissioned projects, student-initiated projects, and/or pro bono projects.
340C: Identity Systems I
Unique: 21683
Instructor: Vic Rodriguez Tang
Examine the relationship between business and graphic design to simplify, unify, and amplify a brand's identity in a studio format.
337: Decolonizing Graphic Design
Unique: 21684
Instructor: Cheryl D. Miller
This remote course presents Miller’s own BIPOC heritage of the West African origins and transatlantic slave trade influences to North American Black graphic design history. The history of the slave artisan fills in the gaps of Black graphic design history erasure through the broad history of the graphic designer and the traditional canon of the history of graphic design.
347: Publication Studio (Letterpress)
Unique: 21685
Instructor: Kevin Auer
Advanced publishing projects in print and/or digital media.
260: Design Internship/Design Practicum
Unique: 21690
Instructor: Catalina Alzate
Introduces students to ethical standards and professional practices in design; allows completion of an approved professional internship.
160I: Internship in Design
Unique: 21695
Instructor: Catalina Alzate
Participate in a professional design internship in a field of interest.
375: Capstone Design Exhibition
Unique: 21700
Instructor: Jiabao Li & Catalina Alzate
Students collaboratively curate, design, and install a senior BFA exhibition, and publish collateral materials that publicly showcase their capstone projects.
376: Independent Study: Design
Unique: 21705
Student-defined projects completed under faculty supervision.
Navigating Your Courses
We offer a wide range of topic courses that may evolve or change each semester. Consult with your advisor, faculty, or department leadership if you have any questions prior to registration.