The University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts, offers a purpose-built curriculum that provides rigorous Communication Design education. Freshmen are required to take the College’s art foundation curriculum, which introduces visual problem-solving and critical-thinking strategies by incorporating and studying culture, history, and practices of various art and design forms across disciplines.
Admission to our Graphic Design track has a two-part process. At the end of the fall semester, there is a candidacy review to admit freshmen into the first of our ComDes courses. This review is a portfolio-based submission along with a design-thinking exercise. This work is reviewed and scored by the entire Communication Design faculty at the end of the freshman spring semester and the first ComDes course. There is a second portfolio review to admit selected students into the Graphic Design track of the Communication Design program. Projects from this course are reviewed and ranked, and those who rank the highest are officially accepted into the program.
We are looking for students who are imaginative and curious, and whom we believe are capable of intellectually maturing. Most importantly, students are required to demonstrate that they are willing and able to engage in conceptual development and critical thinking to succeed in our program. Graduates from UNT’s Communication Design program have earned jobs at respected design firms, ad agencies, and in-house design studios throughout the country.
Contact: cvad.unt.edu