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Graphic Design GRDE

Career Path: Arts and Communications, Business, Management, Marketing, and Technology

Required Courses		Credit Hours
General Education
This degree requires completion of the general education courses found on your program degree checksheet:
*	Communications Competence	3
*	Social Awareness	6
*	Scientific Understanding	3-4
*	Cultural Enrichment	3
Major
GRDE 310	Communication Design 1	3
GRDE 312	Production Techniques	3
GRDE 316	Web Animation	3
GRDE 320	Communication Design 2	3
GRDE 326	Production Seminar	3
GRDE 410	Visual Communication 1	3
GRDE 412	Design Application 1	3
GRDE 414	Design Seminar	3
GRDE 420	Visual Communication 2	3
GRDE 422	Design Application 2	3
GRDE 499	Portfolio Preparation	3
Choose one:
GRDE 328	Advanced Web Design	3
GRDE 329	Interpretive Image Development	3
Related:
MKTG 321	Principles of Marketing	3
MGMT 301	Applied Management	3
PREL 240	Public Relations Principles	3
*Electives:	Free	3
Minimum credit hours required for B.S. degree (in addition to the AAS degree):		63-64

Why Choose Graphic Design?

The Graphic Design degree programs are based on the creation, organization, and production and of information for print, packaging, environmental, advertising, web, and digital communication solutions. Students apply creative and conceptual skills, design principles, and electronic technology to communicate messages to intended audiences. By working with illustrations, photography, type, and color, the student creates and manages the production of print and web communications designed to inform, educate or persuade a specific audience.

The Graphic Design programs at Ferris:

link traditional design and artistic skills with current electronic technology;

offer a broad based design education to allow each student to develop in particular areas of interest, such as print, package, environmental, web or interactive media design;

integrate business and marketing courses within a comprehensive design curriculum providing its graduates with a broader range of skills applicable to today’s market.

Get a Great Job

This program prepares students for jobs in the field they have studied. Graduates of the Graphic Design bachelor degree program enter the workplace as print designers, web designers, and art directors. The program has a 98.9 percent placement rate of its graduates.

Admission Requirements

The Graphic Design bachelor degree program ladders from the Graphic Design associate degree program or equivalency. All candidates must complete the course requirements of the first two years with a minimum 2.7 GPA in the major courses and a minimum 2.0 GPA overall. They must also successfully pass a portfolio review, after completing the sophomore year of study.

Graduation Requirements

The Graphic Design program at Ferris leads to a bachelor of science degree. Graduation requires a minimum 2.7 GPA in the major courses and a minimum 2.0 GPA overall. A total of 124/125 credit hours must be completed (A.A.S. and B.S.) for graduation.

More Information

Graphic Design
119 South Street/BUS 302
Big Rapids, MI 49307-2284
Phone: 231-591-2442
Email: ekj@ferris.edu