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Environmental Design Course List

Course Title Course # Credits
Arch Design and Strategies 2 ENV 387 3 credits
Arch. Design and Strategies ENV 367 6 credits
Architectural Visualization ENV 321 3 credits
Babel: Collaborative Installat ENV 390 3 credits
Drawing from Architecture ENV 298 3 credits
ENV Independent Study ENV 398 3 credits
Environmental Studio II ENV 210 3 credits
Environmental Design Thesis ENV 410 6 credits
Fabrication Technology ENV 201 3 credits
Histories Mysteries ENV 314 3 credits
Industrial Design Studio ENV 220 3 credits
Innovation & Precedent ENV 338 3 credits
Int/Exterior: Space-Body-City ENV 267 3 credits
Integrated 3D Design ENV 200 3 credits
Introduction to Product Design ENV 205 3 credits
Introduction to Scenic Design ENV 226 3 credits
Introduction to Spatial Design ENV 100 3 credits
Materials:Types & Connections ENV 212 3 credits
Models and Miniatures ENV 295 3 credits
Obj Design II: User Experience ENV 266 3 credits
Object Design III ENV 366 3 credits
Object Design IV ENV 386 3 credits
Scenic Design II ENV 287 3 credits
Sustainability, Design & Pract ENV 377 3 credits
Systems of Projection ENV 202 3 credits
The Ancient City of the Future ENV 309 3 credits
The Historic Ship ENV 337 3 credits
The Luminous Object ENV 447 3 credits
The Mill: Hist. & Reconstruct. ENV 328 3 credits
The Urban Environment ENV 330 3 credits
Time and Place ENV 283 3 credits
Time and Place ENV 284 3 credits
Time&Place:CreatngTheat’clSpc ENV 286 3 credits
Urban Design ENV 400 3 credits
Visual Space: The Lighted Env. ENV 428 3 credits

Environmental Design Curriculum

The exploration of ideas, forms, drawings, and tools is a holistic process, requiring mastery of different mediums, concepts and methods. Students develop through visualizing and constructing their ideas. In Environmental Design this means acquiring comfort across the full spectrum of available techniques.

Total Credits for the BFA in Environmental Design: 126

The below degree plan is for the 2007-2008 academic year. Existing students should use MyMICA or contact their Advisor to get a personalized degree plan.

Foundation Requirements: All students must complete the following requirements.

Course Title Course # Credits
EA 210 Electronic Media & Culture 3
FF 100 Elements of Visual Thinking I 3
FF 101 Sculptural Forms 3
FF 102 Elements of Visual Thinking II 3
FF 150 Painting I 3
FF 198 Drawing I 3
FF 199 Drawing II 3
Total Credits for the Foundation Requirements 21

Liberal Arts Requirements: Students must complete all Liberal Arts requirements

Course Title Course # Credits
LA 101 Critical Inquiry 3
Intellectual History 1 3
Intellectual History 2 3
Theory 3
Art History 15
Literature I 3
Literature II 3
Science/Math 3
Liberal Arts Electives 6
Total Credits for the Liberal Arts Requirements 42

Requirements for the Major in Environmental Design

Course Title Course # Credits
Environmental Design Core 9
Environmental Design Thesis ENV 410 6
Environmental Design Track 1 3
Environmental Design Track 2 3
Environmental Design Track 3 3
Environmental Design Track 4 3
Foundation Studio Elective 3
Studio Electives 24
Total Credits for the Environmental Design 63

Course Descriptions
Environmental Design Thesis
ENV 410 6 credits
6 credits. Chomowicz and guest. Offered spring. Thesis students are expected to develop a body of work that reflects specific convictions as a designer, their most profound work as a conceptual thinker and their highest level of craft as a maker. The thesis gives the student an opportunity to pursue questions, explore ideas, and formulate a response as a body of work particular only to each student’s career at MICA. Students are encouraged to select one of the department’s four themes to both fulfill a concentration and provide inspiration for their career.

The environmental design department offers both a major leading to the BFA and a studio concentration that prepare students to work in a collaborative, interdisciplinary atmosphere to solve complex social issues. Graduates find success in such fields as architecture, interior design, and industrial design and gain entrance to top graduate schools.

Can redesigning a water bottle help save our planet? How about a building that breathes, dinnerware for the blind, or a neighborhood rescued from urban blight? These are just a few of the questions our students and their projects have asked.

MICA’s environmental design curriculum prepares designers who will increasingly find themselves at the center of converging professional disciplines. The historic barriers between design and nearly all other professional disciplines are quickly dissolving. In their place are new paradigms that put the designer in a crucial role to integrate diverse expertise in pursuit of solving complex social issues.

The role of the environmental designer is nearly limitless: nearly everything in your life is designed. The page you are reading, the chair you are sitting in, the room, building, block and city around you, even the airplane above your head and the train below your feet were all ideas turned into form. Each began as a question, “Why isn’t there a …” and ended with a solution that changed how we live, work, and play.

The goal of the Environmental Design Department is to create informed, critical, and passionate investigators of built form. From the smallest prototyped object, to furniture, to interior spaces, to architecture, to entire cities, environmental design is deeply concerned with addressing societal dilemmas through the exploration of form and materials. The exploration of ideas, forms, drawings, and tools is a holistic process, requiring mastery of different mediums, concepts, and methods. Students develop through visualizing and constructing their ideas. In environmental design this means acquiring comfort across the full spectrum of available techniques. From traditional hand and power tools to advanced rapid prototyping and remote sensing, or from freehand sketching to 3D animations, MICA students gain the necessary training to fully realize their ideas.

The curriculum begins with a series of introductory courses that provide students with core competencies and knowledge in the field. Students then select either an object design or spatial design track in order to focus their study on their primary area of interest. An expansive number of electives in either track allows each student to design a unique program of study in close consultation with the major advisor, choosing from MICA’s offerings in a wide variety of disciplines. Students may also deepen their study in a particular area of the field with coursework offered in engineering, ancient history, business, and other disciplines at The Johns Hopkins University and other area colleges and universities. Numerous hands-on, real-world, and professional development opportunities are available for environmental design majors.

Equipped with the technical and conceptual tools demanded by today’s professional design firms, MICA environmental design majors are well prepared to utilize their talents on a broad range of project types and sizes, and in a variety of settings. Many alumni pursue graduate study and practice in architecture, interior design, industrial design, and related fields.

MICA’s national reputation in drawing builds on its commitment to achieving the highest level of drawing proficiency in all students, and the department offers a dynamic and flexible BFA curriculum that allows a robust community of artists to explore the expressive possibilities of drawing through a wide array of innovative courses taught by a nationally renowned faculty.

MICA is committed to achieving the highest level of drawing proficiency among its students. In this respect, the Drawing Department serves as both a foundation for all other departments and a resource for upper-level electives. It also offers a vigorous, in-depth program of study for those choosing a major in drawing. Learning to draw means learning to discern the qualities of visual forms and the spaces they occupy. To articulate these judgments, good eye/hand coordination must be carefully developed. The department believes that these skills and the creative possibilities explored through drawing are as important for those pursuing a career in the applied arts as they are for the fine artist.

The underlying strength of the drawing program is in the mid-level studio courses. All students, except for those majoring in photography, environmental design, and graphic design, are required to take a life drawing and a studio drawing course. It is strongly recommended that these courses be taken in the sophomore year, because the intellectual capacities in judgments about formal relationships that these courses develop are, in every sense of the word, a prerequisite to higher level work in one’s own major. In keeping with the department’s philosophy, these courses are woven around subjects that have played central roles in the traditions of western art: the nude, still life, interiors, landscapes, nature study, the portrait, composition, and others. In the upper-level studios, drawing courses are more varied and esoteric, encouraging personal expression and inviting visual experimentation and imaginative solutions.

The course of study for drawing majors is intentionally broad and open. In all, students have 14 electives, some of which are open to any studio department and others that are restricted to painting, printmaking, or drawing. Students are encouraged to develop and pursue their own vision. Drawing majors participate in the senior independent program shared by the painting, drawing, printmaking, and general fine arts departments.

The 12-quarter Bachelor of Science degree in Graphic Design includes 192 credit hours. Program classes include Survey of Media & Design, Art & Design Concepts, Typography for Digital Media, Electronic Design, and Print Production. Students use software such as Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXpress.

Total Credit Hours: 192
12 Quarters

Curriculum
FS101 Fundamentals/Observational Drawing
FS102 Fundamentals of Design
FS103 Color Theory
FS104 Computer Applications
FS111 Drawing, Proportion & Perspective
FS122 Image Manipulation
FS131 Typography I — Traditional
FS239 Career Development
FS297 Portfolio I
FS399 Internship I
FS497 Portfolio II
FS499 Internship II
GD1123 Electronic Layout
GD1124 Form & Space
GD1125 Introduction to Photography
GD1132 Grid Systems
GD1133 Digital Grid Systems
GD1134 Digital Illustration
GD2241 Concept Design
GD2242 Illustrative Concept Design
GD2243 Typography II — Hierarchy
GD2244 Advanced Image Manipulation
GD2251 Branding
GD2252 Corporate Communications
GD2253 Typography III — Expressive & Experimental
GD2254 Pre-Print Production
GD2262 Message Making
GD2263 Typography IV — Publication
GD2264 Digital Message Making
GD2265 Project Concept
GD3371 Project Study
GD3381 Introduction to Packaging
GD3383 Photography II
GD3384 Advanced Design
GD3391 Graphic Design History
GD3393 Art & The Law
GD3394 Package Design
GD4401 Design Team I
GD4402 Design Research — Marketing Design
GD4403 Environmental Design
GD4406 Advanced Study
GD4411 Design Team II
GD4412 Senior Project Design Studio
GD4413 Senior Project Lab
HU110 College English
HU111 Effective Speaking
HU130 Visual Language & Culture
MA2241 Motion Graphics

Other
Mathematics & Sciences Requirement
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement

1st Elective
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement
Liberal Studies Requirement
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement
Humanities Writing Requirement
Mathematics & Sciences Requirement
Liberal Studies Requirement
Humanities Art Requirement

2nd Elective
3rd Elective
Humanities Requirement
Liberal Studies Requirement

Electives
1st Elective (choose from one of the following):
FS399 Internship I
MM1123 Fundamentals of Web-based Programming
GD3385 Copywriting
2nd Elective (choose from one of the following):
GD3382 Advanced Typography
MA4405 Intermediate Motion Graphics
MM1121 Information Design
MA2200 Painting
3rd Elective (choose from one of the following):
MA4415 Advanced Motion Graphics
FS499 Internship II
GD3395 Package Identity
MM3303 Intermediate Web-based Programming
MM3333 Web Design for Graphic Artists
GD3112 Letterpress and the Artist’s Book
GD4400 Special Topics in Graphic Design

Major in Hyper Media Design
The main purpose of this major is to widen information and knowledge of design for human life, and to learn to communicate more concisely and effectively. To achieve this, this major aims to educate in the most basic and common methodology, most notably design principles, design grammars and design orders, through series of logical and scientific approaches and research methods. It contributes to the idea of producing advertising design, identity design, publication design, package design, visual environmental design, web design, illustration as well as time-based media design such as film graphic, documentary film and TV and film title design, which are unique images of visual art and of high technology based on computer graphics and the sense of formative art in a contemporary multimedia setting

Careers
Design director, advertising designer, package designer, Web design planner & designer, illustrator, typographer, publication designer, environmental graphic designer, VMD designer, broadcasting director, film & image director & producer,title designer, computer graphic designer, event director & producer, etc.

Admission requirements
In Master’s 1st year:
To hold a Bachelor’s in Industrial Design (Product) or a degree equivalent to Bac+3 or to have completed 180 credits.

In Master’s 2nd year:
To hold a Maîtrise or a degree equivalent to Bac+4 or to a Master’s 1st year.

Career prospects:
Oppotunities can be found in the areas of Design and Creation of objects which meet the aesthetic requirements and those pertaining to the functional, technical, cultural and artistic problems of individuals and society. Graduate may then work independently or in partnership with a design agency, publishing firms, collection series, etc.

Graduates may also practice in the following sectors:
watches and accessories for clock industry
Jewelry, industrial jewelry, gallery and museum jewelry
Fashion, style, accessories, textile
Industrial objects and products
Furniture
Environmental design
Teaching, lecturing and research

Environmental Design

Students are provided the opportunity to create architectural structures that fuse nature and the way people really live. Students also learn the nuances of interior space utilization in order to delve into what types of designs offer safe and comfortable living.

Changes in the nature of society, including increasing use of advanced information technology, environmental preservation, and graying of the population have made the designer’s roles and responsibilities in society extremely important. With design having such a deeply significant impact on solving society’s problems, for example with the cooperative research conducted between design and industry, people need educational and research institutions to exert even greater independence and originality. NUA’s Design department develops designers and planners capable of being active in a wide range of fields, including industrial, commercial, and environmental design,We help students refine their creative sensibilities while preparing them with a wealth of specialized knowledge, planning abilities, and judgement Hence,with the aim of cultivating the “power to perceive form,” we invite students to participate in creating the concepts defining what design should be in the 21st century.
- Department of Design
Media and Communication Block
Visual Communication Design Course
Illustration Course
Media Design Course
Media Communication Design Course
Product and Space Block
Industrial Design Course
Spatial Design Course
Handcraft Block
Metal and Jewelry Design Course
Textile Design Course
Ceramic Design Course
Life Style Block
Design Management Course (Research and Planning)

Curriculum
First Quarter
HU110 College English show details
Second Quarter
GD1123 Electronic Layout show details
HU111 Effective Speaking show details
Third Quarter
GD1124 Form & Space show details
GD1132 Grid Systems show details
GD1133 Digital Grid Systems show details
GD1134 Digital Illustration show details
Liberal Studies Elective Requirement
Fourth Quarter
GD2241 Concept Design show details
GD2242 Illustrative Concept Design show details
GD2243 Typography II — Hierarchy show details
GD2244 Advanced Image Manipulation show details
HU130 Visual Language & Culture show details
Fifth Quarter
GD2251 Branding show details
GD2253 Typography III — Expressive & Experimental show details
GD2254 Pre-Print Production show details
*1st Elective Requirement
Mathematics Elective Requirement
Sixth Quarter
GD2262 Message Making show details
GD2263 Typography IV — Publication show details
GD2264 Digital Message Making show details
Social & Behavioral Sciences Elective Requirement
Seventh Quarter
FS297 Portfolio I show details
GD1125 INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY show details
GD2252 Corporate Communications show details
GD3365 Project Concept
Social & Behavioral Sciences Elective Requirement
Eighth Quarter
GD3381 Introduction to Packaging show details
GD3383 Photography II show details
GD3384 Advanced Design show details
*2nd Elective Requirement
Social & Behavioral Sciences Elective Requirement
Ninth Quarter
GD3391 Graphic Design History show details
GD3393 Art & The Law show details
GD3394 Package Design show details
MA2241 Motion Graphics show details
**Humanities Writing Elective Requirement
Tenth Quarter
GD4401 Design Team I show details
GD4402 Design Research — Marketing Design show details
GD4403 Environmental Design show details
GD4406 Advanced Study show details
Mathematics & Sciences Elective Requirement
Eleventh Quarter
GD4411 Design Team II show details
GD4412 Senior Project Design Studio show details
GD4413 Senior Project Lab show details
**Liberal Studies Elective Requirement
Humanities Art Elective Requirement
Twelfth Quarter
GD3371 Project Study show details
*3rd Elective Requirement
**Humanities Elective Requirement
**Liberal Studies Elective Requirement
Electives
1st elective may be chosen from lower division (1000– or 2000–level courses) or from upper division courses (3000– or 4000–level courses). 2nd and 3rd electives must be selected from upper division courses (3000– or 4000–level courses). Electives may not be chosed from Liberal Studies classes. Prerequisites must be met.
Liberal Studies
Liberal Studies electives designated with two asterisks must be chosen from upper division (300–400 level) Liberal Studies courses.