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The opportunity to design a major appeals to students whose interests and career goals are broadly interdisciplinary. Most students decide to select a major from one of the established academic areas. They choose, for example, to major in geology or Spanish, sociology or religious studies. At Wooster, however, students may also propose a special major if they find that their educational objectives are better served in a curriculum which extends beyond that provided by an existing departmental sequence of courses.

Many students who initially investigate the special major discover, after consultation with faculty members, that their needs can be met by working within an existing department. The Independent Study (I.S.) program at Wooster already lends enough flexibility to the curriculum to allow most students to specialize in certain areas, if they so desire, while remaining in a regular department. However, if a student desires to study a set of issues or questions that cut across conventional disciplinary boundaries, then that student may consider the self-designed major.

Planning, Policy & Design
WELCOME FROM THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR

Welcome to the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine. Students and faculty here are part of a distinctive, energetic community that has achieved international and national prominence by combining top research while fostering an intellectual culture that values discovery, teaching, and professional and public service.

Established in 1993 as the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, the department has quickly built a reputation for leading-edge scholarship in many fields. UC Irvine faculty members are top contributors to leading journals, serve as editors or editorial board members on numerous periodicals, and regularly publish with many of the foremost presses, including Oxford University Press, MIT Press, the University of California Press, and Johns Hopkins University Press – among others.

Our faculty members are also strongly committed to forging links between theory and practice, and research and public service. They regularly advise federal agency committees, including those reporting to the National Research Council; national, state, and local government officials; leaders of international organizations, and those who direct private and non-profit, non-governmental organizations.

In addition to our commitment to excellence in scholarship and public service, we offer graduate students the opportunity to study in small classes with exceptional access to faculty members. Teaching is highly valued – exemplified by the fact that many of our faculty members have won competitive awards for instruction and student mentoring. And, students have access to numerous internship and fellowship opportunities, as well as contact with visiting scholars through departmental-sponsored colloquia and seminars, as well as access to faculty and researchers in many other departments here at UCI – one of the nation’s top research universities – whose work embraces topics important to studies in the fields we embrace.

Our name – Planning, Policy, and Design – underscores and embodies our unique vision: to provide an innovative blending of the fields of public policy, urban and regional planning, and environmental design that allow us to creatively explore problems at the intersection of the natural and built environments; including community health and well-being, transportation, environmental quality, natural resources, housing, economic development, and threats to community integrity and security – among many others.

Our scholarship, teaching, and service ranges broadly – partly attested to by the various centers and institutes whose activities are supported by our faculty, and which provide numerous opportunities for student involvement in research and outreach which supplements classroom instruction, and the department’s numerous internship and fellowship opportunities.

These centers include the recently established Center on Inequality and Social Justice (CISJ); which affords students the opportunity to better understand the causes and effects of inequality, and what can be done to promote social and economic justice for all; the Community Outreach Partnership Center, affiliated with CISJ, which works to empower local communities on issues of education and community development; the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, which promotes greater understanding of the challenges in building social capital in developing countries wrought by war, internecine violence, natural disaster, environmental degradation, and poverty; the Center for Organizational Research, which examines ways to improve organizations, and the Urban Water Research Center which focuses on ways to manage and protect that most vital, and increasingly threatened, of all natural resources – here in California and throughout the world.

We invite you to learn more about us by exploring our website, and by visiting the department in person. If you choose to pursue one of our excellent programs – our Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning program, which is regarded among the very best programs in planning in the U.S. – or our PhD in Planning, Policy and Design, which in its relatively short period of existence has achieved eminence by encouraging our students to acquire knowledge and skills that can be applied to addressing real-world policy problems, you will be joining a department which offers graduate education of the highest caliber. If you seek an innovative, dynamic and thriving leaning environment that produces leaders in the practice of urban and regional planning at the Masters level, as well as scholars equipped with leading edge research tools in our Doctoral program, consider what UCI’s Department of Planning, Policy and Design can offer you.

The Arts - Fashion Design

Today, Fashion and Textile industries are relying heavily on CAD in terms of the design and manufacture of the product and in the merchandising and marketing of that product.

In order to be prepared for the work force in the fashion and textile industries, students must have some familiarity with the CAD process.

Lindenwood University will proudly announce that Lectra systems have donated 3 million dollars worth of fashion and textile CAD software to the fashion design program.

This will open a new door for the Lindenwood fashion design students in the corporate world. Students will have an opportunity to get trained in patternmaking skills through the industry-approved software, Modaris.

Refinements and extensions of the technologies are constantly happening at all levels of design and production in the fashion industry.

Attributable to this are the new job positions being created throughout the fashion industry. A perfect example is the position of a textile designer.

A textile designer will use a textile design system to create the fabrics for the group or the line.

Lectra system has also donated U-4ia, a top level CAD system for textile design. Our students at Lindenwood will have an opportunity to learn how to create prints, patterns and woven textile fabric through this U-4ia system.

We currently have faculty members with several years of textile and fashion design experience through the fashion industry, this system will enable them to prepare students to work at the corporate level.

The fashion design department is delighted to announce that Lindenwood is the only University in the state currently implementing this top-of the line CAD program into their curriculum. with the privilege to have this industry approved CAD software. This is a great opportunity for the fashion design students to receive the most up-to date CAD experience. This addition to the fashion program will allow

Fashion design students to have more job opportunities Nationwide

More opportunity for students to have internships with big corporations i.e. (J.C. Penny, Target, Sears, Levi, Limited, Chico and May Co.)

Entry Requirements
Please note: all international applicants must fill in the online application form and send a printed version of this by regular mail.
Documents to be Submitted Along With the Printed Version of the Online Application Form:

In order to be considered for admission to Aalborg University, you must send the following documents in accordance with the deadlines:
date and sign the printed version of the online application form

officially verified copies of certificates and academic transcripts, including your final grade average with an explanation of grading system (maximum grade, minimum grade, etc.)

if your final certificate and final year transcripts are not yet available, please submit an official provisional certificate and transcript or an official letter from your home university, listing the remaining subjects and the expected grades as well as the expected final grade average

if you are not a native English speaker: verified IELTS score report (academic IELTS) with a minimum score of 6.5 (or authenticated results of equivalent test. Socrates/Exchange students may enclose a letter from their home university confirming the level of English proficiency*)

*Please note that the official required English proficiency test at AAU is the IELTS test. Therefore, the professors/study coordinators may admit you on condition that you pass an IELTS test regardless of having already submitted the results of another English proficiency test (incl. confirmation letter from home university)

one or more letters of recommendation from faculty members acquainted with your work in the major area of academic study. If that work occurred some time ago, recommendation from those familiar with your professional performance are acceptable.
Furthermore, please note the following:
a verification of all documents will be accepted only if performed by the institution that has issued the original document, by the Embassy or Consulate in your home country or by a public notary

if the enclosed documents are not in English, officially verified translations must be included

forwarded documents will not be returned to you. Therefore, do not submit any original documents.

The scope of product design is enormous, ranging from such items as the simple light switch to the most sophisticated airplane. It is the job of the product designer to give form to the manufactured objects that enhance our daily lives.

In Japan, as in other developed countries around the world, our lives have become increasingly convenient and affluent. However, questions of welfare, medical care, and psychological issues are all objects of concern. The Product Design Course aims to strike a balance between materialistic and spiritual philosophies. In our view, the process of product design, from the initial concept to the final manufacturing stage, should be based on the notion of harmonizing scientific technology with human nature, and the enjoyment of actually designing a product should always be grounded in a close study of the demands of daily life.

The course expects students to show a spirit of inquiry and belief in their own potential. The curriculum is designed to develop the students’ inherent abilities, and at the same time help them to broaden their horizons. One of the most important features of the curriculum is the high number of design projects involving cooperative research with industry, government agencies, and other educational institutions. In the first and second years, students learn basic design skills and develop a general understanding of design, developing original approaches to visual expression. Students are encouraged to view their projects objectively in terms of functionality and aesthetic value. In the third and fourth years, training in applied design techniques aims to extend the proficiency acquired during basic training. This leads students toward greater competence in their work. A distinctive feature of the special curriculum is a team system, in which students receive individual instruction from groups of faculty members who are leading professional designers. This educational environment is based on the personnel structure found in the corporate product design field, and thus provides excellent preparation for a career as a product designer.

Interior Design at Pratt provides the ultimate learning environment—New York City, interior design capital of the United States—and a challenging course of study for students preparing themselves for a career in a field whose potential has only begun to be recognized. It is widely acknowledged that interior design education, as it is taught across the United States, began at Pratt. That so many of our alumni are found in the Who’s Who of Interior Designers is no surprise. The Interior Design program is consistently ranked among the top in the country in an annual independent professional survey.

The Graduate Interior Design Program at Pratt, like its undergraduate counterpart, is an architecturally oriented program with emphasis on spatial design rather than surface embellishment. All aspects of space—scale, proportions, configuration, and light sources, as well as textures, materials, and colors—are studied in relation to their effect on the human spirit.

Students are drawn from all parts of the world and, by way of the Qualifying Program, from a variety of disciplines, creating an intellectually and aesthetically stimulating ambience in the studios. It should be noted that applicants to the Qualifying Program are not required to submit a portfolio when applying for admission. All faculty members are also practicing professionals who bring the realities of real-world interactions with clients and contractors into the classroom.

The program culminates in the thesis project wherein students’ competence in all aspects of the profession is demonstrated. The Exhibition Design Intensive is an alternative to the traditional thesis track and offers students a one-year immersion in exhibition design in the final year.

Industrial Design is the professional service of creating and developing concepts and specifications that optimize the function, value and appearance of products and systems for the mutual benefit of both user and manufacturer. Industrial designers, with their wide range of interests and generalists outlook in an age of specialization, must be part artist, part entrepreneur and part engineer.

The industrial designer’s work touches all of our lives in the form of home furnishings, transportation, appliances, recreational equipment and a myriad of other consumer and industrial products and services. While giving form to the efforts of industry, the designer is at the same time a consumer advocate, providing the humanizing link between technology and the consumer.

The industrial design program at Georgia Tech offers a well-rounded course of study with an early emphasis on basic design and design skills. Design projects stress realistic design situations. The program encourages students to develop a diverse background in order to expand individual talents and respond to changing opportunities in the field. Industrial design faculty members are practicing designers with extensive experience in the field.

Painting
The graduate Painting Course pursues the skills and sensibilities learned in the four undergraduate years on a deeper, more professional level. Students improve the quality of their painting in an environment in which they work freely, receive the advice of faculty members, and observe others’ work. With the help of a teacher, students think in more detailed, specialized ways about the problems they encounter in their work. Painting styles range from representational to abstract.
The Graduate School focuses entirely on the art work and the individual. It is a world in which conversation and criticism revolve around the students’ work, and in that sense, an important stepping-stone on the road to becoming an artist. Students progress step by step along that path, working on painting and contemplating the role of art in the world.

Curriculum

1st year: Introducing the attractiveness of printmaking through basic techniques – wood, copper, drypoint.
2D figurative art 1 (color composition), 2D figurative art 2 (Sketching), 2D figurative art 3 (copper etching 1), 2D figurative art 4 (free production), figurative art 1 & 2 (artist’s documentation); handcraft, 3D figurative art, basic design 1 (basics), basic design 2 (woodblock)

2nd year: Basic potential of the four essential print media: woodblock, etching, lithography, sikscreen. Also photography and other “new media” to expand expression.
2D figurative art 5 (media expression), 2D figurative art 6 (free production), photo techniques 1, figurative art 3 (basic CG), printmaking 1 (book art), printmaking 2 (silkscreen 1, litho 1), printmaking 3 (woodblock 2, litho 2), printmaking 4 (silkscreen 2, copper etching 2), introduction to printmaking.

3rd year: Students join seminar groups for different print areas, extending specializations through discussion with faculty members and experimentation to find own style.
2D figurative art 7 & 8 (CG), photo techniques 2, figurative art 4, 3D figurative art, printmaking 5 (paper art, polymer print), printmaking 6-8 (assignment depending on course)

4th year: Mainly preproduction, gaining experience to raise the quality of work exchanging opinions and developing necessary skills for graduation works.
Figurative art 5 (critique), figurative art 6 (thesis), media for figurative art 1-3 (assignment depending on course), graduation production

The scholarship office is dedicated to helping every student who desires seeking out scholarships. This website is a diverse tool, created to guide each student through the scholarship process from searching for scholarships , to mailing the application package to the sponsor before the deadline. The links provided are designed to further assist in completing the application process and provide additional resources, examples and tools to enable each applicant the ability to learn how to apply for any scholarship.

There are approximately 14 billion dollars in scholarships available for students each academic year. Receiving those scholarship requires that each applicant complete a scholarship application package developed by the sponsor of the particular scholarship; this package is the only way the sponsor will have to determine who will receive their scholarship. This means that there is only one way to develop a scholarship package, this process is discussed in the “Resource Tools” section of the website. That section will discuss scholarship search options, reviewing and filling out the application package, writing the personal statement and reference letter parameters and request requirements. This process does include asking for assistance from academic resources like a faculty members, counselors, the Scholarship Specialist, staff, English tutors/labs etc.