MFA.GRAPH.3YR - MFA in Graphic Design (3yr)

2025 - 2026 | Curriculum | 3-year program

MFA candidates with the visual/verbal aptitude to enter the field but who hold undergraduate degrees in majors such as architecture, biology, computer science, history, journalism, literature and so forth need a foundational year of study to gain the requisite skills in typography, color, theory, image and design application to move on to a thesis investigation in the subsequent two years. After successful completion of the intensive first year, three-year track students merge studies with two-year track candidates, taking one more typography course but otherwise sharing the same increasingly open curriculum.

Learning outcomes

Graduates of the MFA program are prepared to:

• interrogate the use of contemporary and historical tools, software and theory while contributing innovative and critical formal responses to the field of graphic design.

• produce visual form as proof of concept and demonstration of theory.

• contribute, evaluate and critique visual communication work at an advanced strategic level.

• participate effectively in a professional graphic design studio environment.

• initiate an individual or collaborative studio practice.

• convey their expertise through teaching and/or mentoring.

• curate exhibitions of their work and that of others.

• conduct original research and convey it through appropriate modes of writing, publishing, curating and/or exhibiting.