Design
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Program Contact Information
Website: https://www.uofu.design/
AAC, Rm 235
375 S 1530 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Phone: 801-581-8254
Instagram: @uofu_design
Program Description
The undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Multi-Disciplinary Design explores product design in three categories: physical, digital, and platform. The program encompasses a curriculum with four substantive areas applicable to product design education: Studio, Technical, History/Theory, and Practice. This program will engage our students to compete in an ever increasingly complex work environment with a thorough understanding of ethical conduct and social responsibility through these specific concepts:
inquiry and project-based learning
critical thinking skills
experimentation with multiple ways of problem solving
visual strategy
innovation
design leadership, team building, and collaboration
identifying opportunity for impact
design research
human centered design principles
Program Admissions Requirements
Students interested in the design major must declare their major as pre-design as soon as possible.
Application to the Multi-disciplinary Design Program requires the completion of the Design Foundations Program and all pre-requisites. Annual submission dates and process are posted at www.design.utah.edu by February 1.
The application process looks at student work in Design Foundations through understanding, development, and presentation.
Students are required to have a 3.0 GPA or higher, and a grade of C or higher in the pre-requisite DES2630. Exceptions to these GPA and grade requirements may be made at the discretion of the Chair. Admission to the program is not based on individual grades in other pre-requisite courses.
The application review process will be conducted each summer; admitted students will begin the program immediately in the summer session. Students should apply prior to the semester they expect to begin study in the program, acceptance can not be deferred. Students may apply to program two times with rejection before needing approval from the director/chair/dean to apply again.
The Design Foundations program provides pre-major students with cross-disciplinary design-related literacy and skills in a supportive, cohort-based learning environment. In their first year, Design Foundations students work together in three courses—Design Contexts (DES 2630), Design Ecologies (CMP 2010), and Design Foundations Workshop (ARCH 2630). During their second year, students explore in greater depth one of three streams of inquiry—design, urban ecology, or architecture--preparing them to enter one of the college's three undergraduate majors.