Simmons College

Students may pursue a design track focusing on print, web, multimedia, or a combination.

Prerequisites/requirements outside the Communications Department:

There are four courses in the fine arts for students taking the design track. Three are required studio courses, which may be taken concurrently with the communications core or with COMM 210, Introduction to Graphic Design. The fourth course is in art history, which may be taken at any point prior to graduation. However, students should complete the prerequisites before moving to the intermediate level in step two. Students in the design track need to take these three prerequisite studio courses:

• ART 111 Introduction to Studio Art: Drawing
• ART 112 Introduction to Studio Art: Color
• COMM/ART 138 Introduction to Studio Art: Photography

Students may choose one of the following courses to satisfy the prerequisite in art history:

• ART 141 Introduction to Art History: Egypt to Mannerism
• ART 142 Introduction to Art History: Baroque to the 20th Century
• ART 249 History of Photography
• Design History at Mass Art or Boston University

Step Two Requirements:

• COMM 210 Introduction to Graphic Design: Principles and Practice
• COMM 240 Intermediate Graphic Design I: Typography

Choose one of the following:

• COMM 244 Web I: Design for the World Wide Web
• COMM 248 Intermediate Graphic Design II: Type and Image

Step Three Required electives (choose two in consultation with the faculty advisor; you must take at least one 300-level course):

• COMM 244 Web I: Design for the World Wide Web
• COMM 246 Digital Imaging for Design
• COMM 248 Intermediate Graphic Design II: Type and Image
• COMM 333 Web II: Motion Graphics for the Web
• COMM 340 Advanced Design

Students who have successfully completed the design track requirements at Simmons College may take additional courses at Massachusetts College of Art through the Colleges of the Fenway consortium with the advisor's consent.