Dec 05, 2025

2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin

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2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED]

Industrial & Product Design, B.F.A. Sequence

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Suggested Four Year Program Plan

Total Program Credits: 120

Note: Prefixes ART, ARTH, and DES require a grade of “C or better”.

Courses identified with an * are sequential and have prerequisite requirements.

First Year (31 credits)

Fall Semester (14 credits)

ART-100 Drawing I (4 cr.)
ART-101 Two-Dimensional Design Foundations (4 cr.)
ARTH-223 Survey of Art - Ancient Through Medieval (3 cr.)
ENGL-101 Composition 1 (3 cr.) or
ENGL-101HON Honors Composition 1 (3 cr.)

Spring Semester (17 credits)

ART-103 Three-Dimensional Design Foundations (4 cr.)
ART-200 Drawing II (4 cr.)
ARTH-224 Survey of Art-Renaissance Through 20th Century (3 cr.)
DES-150 Introduction to Sustainable Design and Development (3 cr.)
ENGL-102 Composition 2 (3 cr.) or
ENGL-102HON Honors Composition 2 (3 cr.)

Second Year (30 credits)

Fall Semester (15 credits)

DES-205 Design Drawing and Concept Visualization (3 cr.)
DES-220 Introduction to 2D Digital Imaging (3 cr.)
DES-231 Industrial Design: Product Form and Visualization (3 cr.) *
ETECH-110 Materials and Manufacturing Processes (3 cr.)
ARTH-319 History of Design (3 cr.)

Spring Semester (15 credits)

DES-232 Industrial Design: Ergonomics and Human Factors (3 cr.) *
DES-405 Advanced Design Drawing (3 cr.)
ETECH-256 Engineering Graphics Fundamentals and Solid Modeling (3 cr.)
COMST-100 Fundamentals of Speech (3 cr.)
Course Selective-1 : Analytic Reasoning and Natural Sciences MATH or STAT (3 cr.)

Third Year (29 credits)

Fall Semester (13 credits)

DES-331 Intermediate Industrial Design: Product Interface Design (3-4 cr.) *
ETECH-266 Engineering Graphics Surface Modeling & Rendering (3 cr.)
Course Selective-1 : 3-D Core Requirement (3 cr.)
ETECH-202 Welding and Casting Processes (3 cr.) or
ETECH-204 Polymer and Wood Processes (3 cr.)

Spring Semester (16 credits)

DES-332 Intermediate ID: Design for Materials and Manufacture (3-4 cr.) *
Course Selective-1 : Art History Selective (3 cr.)
Course Selective-2 : Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning ( 3 cr.)
Course Selective-3 : Arts and Humanities (3 cr.)
ART-300 Drawing III (3 cr.) or
ART-301 Life Drawing I (3 cr.)

Fourth Year (30 credits)

Fall Semester (14 credits)

DES-431 Industrial Design Capstone I: Advanced Research Methods (3-4 cr.) *
Course Selective-1 : Design Studio Selective (3 cr.)
Course Selective-2 : Analytic Reasoning and Natural Sciences with lab (4 cr.)
Course Selective-3 : Social and Behavioral Sciences (3 cr.)

Spring Semester (16 credits)

DES-432 Industrial Design Capstone II: Thesis (3-4 cr.) *
Course Selective-1 : Social and Behavioral Sciences (3 cr.)
Course Selective-2 : General Education Selective (3 cr.)
Course Selective-3 : Art Studio Selective (3 cr.)
Course Selective-4 : Analytic Reasoning and Natural Sciences (3 cr.)

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