Location:

Kent, United States

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Master

Specialty:

Industrial Design

Program Overview

Program Description:

<p><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Kent State University offers the Master of Arts in visual communication design and the terminal degree in the field, the Master of Fine Arts. Students come to the Visual Communication Design graduate program from a variety of backgrounds: illustration, advertising, industrial and graphic design, design education, and undergraduate design programs around the world. This diversity of experience has created an ever-changing and enriching environment in which degree candidates strive to reach individual and group goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Graduate students in Visual Communication Design receive support in developing their individual abilities, interests, and personal aesthetic. Organized individually for each student, the curriculum includes required courses and assignments as well as opportunities for individual investigations. Graduate students also broaden their professional exposures by serving in the Glyphix studio for course credit and by working with guest instructors from around the world in summer workshops.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Many Visual Communication Design graduate students seek advanced degrees in order to teach at the university level. To provide teaching experience at this level, teaching assistantships are available to second-year graduate students after they observe and assist faculty in introductory undergraduate courses. Th

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