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Industrial Design BFA
Program overview
Industrial design involves the integration of form and function as products are designed and created by combining materials, process, computer-aided design, and human factors. Blending technical instruction with studio assignments, studies also include package, exhibit, and furniture design. Aesthetic sensitivity, technical competence, and analytical thought are developed and applied to meet the challenge of designing products for human needs.
The school maintains memberships in a variety of professional organizations, including Industrial Designers Society of America, ACM Siggraph, Society of Environmental Graphic Designers, American Society of Interior Designers, American Institute of Architects, ICOGRADA, American Institute of Graphic Arts, and International Interior Design Association.
Curriculum
The BFA in industrial design integrates major courses, studio and open electives, the liberal arts, and art/design history. Computer skills, design perspectives, career preparation, and exposure to the related areas of publishing, photography, engineering, and information technology are integrated into the curriculum.
Industrial design, BFA degree, typical course sequence (semesters), effective fall 2013
| Course | Sem. Cr. Hrs. | |
|---|---|---|
| First Year | ||
| FDTN-121 | 2D Design I | 3 |
| FDTN-131 | 3D Design I | 3 |
| FDTN-111 | Drawing I | 3 |
| ARTH-135 | LAS Perspective 1: Survey of Western Art and Architecture I | 3 |
| LAS Foundation 1: First-Year Seminar (SMTL) | 3 | |
| FDTN-122 | 2D Design II | 3 |
| FDTN-132 | 3D Design II | 3 |
| IDDE-102 | Design Drawing | 3 |
| ARTH-136 | LAS Perspectives 2: Survey of Western Art and Architecture II | 3 |
| ENGL-150 | LAS Foundation 2: Writing Seminar | 3 |
| Wellness Education* | 0 | |
| Second Year | ||
| IDDE-201 | Sophomore ID Studio I | 3 |
| IDDE-206 | ID Form | 3 |
| IDDE-207 | ID Digital Drawing | 3 |
| IDDE-221 | History of Industrial Design | 3 |
| LAS Perspective 3, 4 | 6 | |
| IDDE-202 | Sophomore ID Studio II | 3 |
| IDDE-211 | Human Factors | 3 |
| IDDE-212 | Integrated CAD | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | |
| Third Year | ||
| IDDE-301 | Junior ID Studio I | 4 |
| IDDE-306 | Materials and Processes | 3 |
| IDDE-307 | Graphic Tactics | 3 |
| Studio Electives† | 6 | |
| LAS Immersion 1, 2 | 6 | |
| IDDE-302 | Junior ID Studio II | 4 |
| IDDE-311 | ID Career Planning (WI) | 3 |
| Art History Elective‡ | 3 | |
| Fourth Year | ||
| IDDE-401 | Senior ID Studio I | 4 |
| IDDE-407 | ID Senior Thesis I | 3 |
| IDDE-406 | Professional Practice | 3 |
| Free Electives | 6 | |
| LAS Immersion 3 | 3 | |
| IDDE-402 | Senior ID Studio II | 4 |
| IDDE-408 | ID Senior Thesis II | 3 |
| Studio Elective† | 3 | |
| LAS Elective (SMTL) | 3 | |
| Total Semester Credit Hours | 124 | |
Please see New General Education Curriculum–Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) for more information.
(WI) Refers to a writing intensive course within the major.
(SMTL) Refers to science, math, technical literacy requirement.
* Please see Wellness Education Requirement for more information.
† Studio elective courses are those designated with studio/lab hours listed in the course description.
‡ Art history electives are non-studio courses offered in CIAS or COLA that examine the historical aspects of art, design, crafts, photo or film.
Art history electives
Students are required to select three art history electives to broaden their understanding of the historical development of the arts. Art history electives include:
ARTH-366 18/19th Century Art
ARTH-382 Medieval Craft
ARTH-386 Latin American Art
ARTH-384 Late Medieval Art
ARTH-383 Installation Art
ARTH-374 Illuminated Manuscripts
ARTH-386 History of Things: Studies in Material Culture
ARTH-376 Early Medieval Art
ARTH-377 Displaying Gender
ARTH-372 Art of the Americas
ARTH-388 The Gothic Revival
ARTH-387 The Gothic Cathedral
ARTH-371 Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome
ARTH-392 Theory and Criticism of 20th Century Art
ARTH-373 Art of the Last Decade
ARTH-369 20th Century Art Since 1950
ARTH-368 20th Century Art: 1900-1950
ARTH-457 Art and Activism
ARTH-511 Art and Architecture of Italy: 1250-1400
ARTH-512 Art and Architecture in Italy: 1600-1750
ARTH-518 Art and Architecture in Florence and Rome: The Sixteenth Century
ARTH-517 Art and Architecture in Florence and Rome: The Fifteenth Century
ARTH-573 Conceptual Art
ARTH-581 Realisms and Avant-Gardes in Russian Art
ARTH-576 Modernism and Its Other: Realism and Expressionism
ARTH-571 Extreme Abstraction
ARTH-521 The Image
ARTH-584 Scandinavian Modernism
ARTH-578 Edvard Munch
ARTH-574 Dada and Surrealism
ARTH-568 Art and Technology: from the Machine Aesthetic to the Cyborg Age
ARTH-588 Symbols and Symbol-Making: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art