Visual Communication: Practice and Critique is a graduate seminar designed to help students develop his/her own body of visual communication work through studio practice, research, and critical analysis of the works as they progress. Students are encouraged to pursue a focused personal vision and creative activities through a combination of studio practice and group critique of the students’ works as well as their artist statement and/or design concept.

CILO-1: Discuss and employ critique and research to inform and expand studio practice and artistic creation. CILO-2: Formulate independent research project and develop strategies for a visually coherent and conceptually unified body of creative work in visual communication CILO-3: Analyze and evaluate work and the work of others critically, and discuss how this will inform future directions of the visual communication practice.