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Graduate Media Design Practices

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Mission Statement

Media Design Practices (Master of Fine Arts, STEM-designated) is an interdisciplinary graduate program preparing designers to question, innovate and lead through design, critical thinking, and creative technology. The program trains students to balance the roles of art, scholarship, and industry to develop creative design practices that are curious, critically engaged, and research-driven.

Design

Graduates will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an advanced ability to give concepts form and communicate them across a range of media and modalities. Create work with intention that engages a range of theoretical and applied domains.

Practice

Graduates will be able to:

  • Construct a personal process and employ methodologies that support critical reflection, self-learning, agility, and taking informed risks. Assemble a body of work that interrogates specific interests and domains through design. Productively frame and argue for one’s design endeavors in the context of present and future critique.

Influence

Graduates will be able to:

  • Define new design opportunities/territories through research and engagement with diverse social, cultural and technological contexts. Exercise design and thought leadership by contributing to disciplinary discourse, arguing for new practices, and initiating dialogues within new domains through design.

Research

Graduates will be able to:

  • Pursue a research-based creative practice that implements and fulfills scholarly, artistic, and industrial methodologies and standards for research.
  • Develop work that is relevant to and informed by historical and contemporary contexts, field-specific discourses, ethical frameworks, and intellectual and practice-based traditions.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in composing operative research questions and design briefs; identifying meaningful, contextually-appropriate, and credible sources; articulating a critical position through making and presentation; and accounting for the role of research in the process and expression of a project.