College of Design Brochure

At the College of Design, we blend rigorous study and creative freedom. Our immersive coursework and world-class faculty give you real-world experience and shape your understanding of design.

We’ve crafted our curricula to help you develop a deep understanding of design, all while sharpening your skills and building your portfolio. Here, you’ll become part of a community that is transforming the design professions. You’ll invest your time and challenge yourself.

Most importantly, you’ll prepare for a future in the world of design.

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ARCHITECTURE

Become a leader in discovering new ways an education in architecture can be a strong, positive force in the creation of healthy and sustainable buildings, communities, and environments for a better future. Develop the knowledge and skills to address complex contemporary issues such as:

• Stewardship of scarce resources

• Promotion of livability in cities

• Mitigation of poverty through provision of humane housing

• Research and development of ecologically responsive building materials and integrated building systems

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Degrees offered: Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture (4-year degree); Bachelor of Architecture (5th year degree); Master of Artchitecture, Master of Advanced Architectural Studies

ART + DESIGN

As “artist-designers”, students learn to be creative practitioners and image-makers who give form to ideas through the exploration of media, technology, composition, and storytelling. An Art + Design education redirects artistic talent into a design context focusing on animation, game design, interactive media, fibers, and soft construction.

Degrees offered: Bachelor of Art + Design; Master of Art + Design

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DESIGN STUDIES

Blend design thinking and critical evaluation of objects, structures, and environments as reflections of the social, historical, technological, and physical contexts in which they are produced. Recent graduates from the Design Studies Program have gone on to careers as user experience researchers, design strategists, media production managers, and museum conservationists.

Degree offered: Bachelor of Arts in Design Studies

GRAPHIC AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN

Develop expertise in user experience and user interface design (UX/UI), branding, and typography. Create interfaces and artifacts within larger networks of services and products.

Employ human-centered research methods to understand and inform design decisions. Explore and become proficient in a wide range of media — web, mobile, virtual reality, augmented reality, and embedded technology. Graduates work in enterprise level software companies, branding agencies, design consultancies and more.

Degrees offered: Bachelor of Graphic Design; Master of Graphic Design

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

The Industrial Design programs at NC State educate and prepare students to take a human-centered approach to the design of products, systems, and services. We work to create optimized experiences for people in a wide spectrum of industries, including consumer goods, healthcare, automotive, and software. We balance the aesthetic, functional, and usability aspects of products as we look beyond ourselves to effect a positive change in our world.

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Degrees offered: Bachelor of Industrial Design; Master of Industrial Design

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING

Explore state-of-the-art environmental design through teaching, learning, research, and application. Learn how

Community planning and design, including design

Emerging digital design tools for representation,

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Degree offered: Master of Landscape Architecture

PHD IN DESIGN

Learn how to advance knowledge in design through research and scholarship. Build fertile common ground between the design disciplines and on the need for specificity and depth within them.

The program addresses issues for which there is a college history of scholarship and instruction. Interdisciplinary groups of faculty advise students in coursework and research broadly related to seven research interest areas:

• Design for Health and Well-Being

• Design Methods

• Design for Learning

• Design for Sustainability

• Design History and Criticism

• Design and Technology

• Design and the Urban Context

Degree offered: Ph.D. in Design

DOCTOR OF DESIGN

Established in 2016-17, the professional Doctor of Design (DDes) program is an advanced degree program for established design practitioners, which complements the existing PhD in Design. This is the only DDes program in the country that offers blended learning (online + on campus) in design research aimed at applications in practice. This unique program offers DDes students the flexibility to continue working while completing program requirements.

Possible research categories include:

• Human-Computer-Interaction,

• Digital Design, and Communication

• Design Methods, Materials and Education

• Spatial and Environmental Design

• Engaged Social Design and

• Organization Strategies

Degree offered: Doctor of Design

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225 Brooks Hall

50 Pullen Rd.

Raleigh, NC 27605