ABOUT VCD :: Our Program
THE NUMBER OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED GRADUATES EACH YEAR CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE CURRICULUM OF CAREFULLY CONTROLLED, DEMANDING, AND INTERRELATED YET DISTINCT COURSES.
Visual Communication Design is the fourth largest major at Kent State University and one of the largest and most comprehensive in its course offerings in the United States. Graduates of the program have obtained design positions in every major American city. Alumni work appears regularly in design exhibitions and in published annuals of regional, national and international competitions. The program is nationally recognized for outstanding quality in design education.
The program provides a comprehensive professional preparation, the development of conceptual and aesthetic skills, a knowledge of design history and tradition as basis for individual style, and the transformation of theory into practice through professional example and experience.
The professional emphasis of the program is complemented by a university liberal arts education, providing necessary balance of breadth of knowledge with specificity of design skills.
Accreditation
The program is nationally recognized for outstanding quality in design education. It has been named a “Center of Excellence” among Ohio’s universities by the Ohio Board of Regents, and is a recipient of the Board’s prestigious Academic Challenges Grant. The School is accredited by NASAD (National Association of Schools of Art and Design), an achievement that is gained only through a rigorous review process of accreditation.
Degree Programs
Visual Communication Design offers the following degrees:
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Science in Photo–Illustration
Two combined degrees:
Bachelor of Science/ Master of Arts
Bachelor of Science/ Master of Fine Arts
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Undergraduate Course Catalog: Click the link for the College of Communication and Information. Also on this page is the link for the Course Descriptions. (Click the link Course Descriptions 2 H–V for VCD courses)
Course Descriptions (Direct link - PDF)
Two graduate degrees;
Master of Arts
Master of Fine Arts
The program offers a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree (BA), a four and a half year Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (BFA), and a unique, five-year Bachelor of Science/Master of Arts combined degree (BS/MA), a Master of Arts degree (MA) and the terminal degree in the field, the Master of Fine Arts (MFA). Kent State was the first, and is still one of only two institutions in the State of Ohio offering the terminal degree.
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