Master of Arts - Graphic Design and Digital Media

The MA in Graphic Design & Digital Media emphasizes professional and career development with advanced study of the field and encourages students to extend their design skills into content creation, authorship, entrepreneurialism, and social innovation.

Graduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Critical & Creative Thinking

• Conduct appropriate research to identify problems and potential solutions
• Demonstrate the resourcefulness and flexibility necessary to conceive and execute design solutions

Conceptual Skills

• Create compelling and engaging visual communications that convey appropriate messages and ideas
• Address problems through a design process
• Create visual communications demonstrating competent formal design skills which include: hierarchy, typography, aesthetics, composition and construction of meaningful images
• Demonstrate competence in media, materials, tools, technology, and techniques

Professional Readiness

• Effectively present and communicate ideas
• Demonstrate the skills necessary for chosen career path through the presentation of a cohesive body of work

*Note App Fee Waiver in effect for ApplyBoard to reduce the application fee to $50*