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Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-3621
E-mail: cvad.design@unt.edu
Web site: cvad.unt.edu

Hepi Wachter, Chair
 

Faculty  
 

Degree programs

Discover the graduate-level professional programs offered through the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design in the Department of Design. These programs share a common mission that prepares students to identify, meet, define and reinvent solutions for the fundamental challenges that impact their respective professions in and beyond the increasingly changing world of design. The pathways of study in each program have been designed to help future designers develop the conceptual, aesthetic, analytical and technical skills necessary to achieve these objectives.

Admission requirements

Prospective applicants for graduate degree programs must obtain admission information from the UNT admissions web site: Steps to Apply and information from the College of Visual Arts and Design web site (cvad.unt.edu).

Applicants must apply to the University of North Texas Graduate College Admission System (CAS). Applicants must supply official transcripts. Applicants must have official transcripts for their domestic institutions mailed to University of North Texas Graduate CAS, P.O. Box 9205, Watertown, MA 02471.

Applicants for the MFA programs in design with concentrations in fashion design or interior design must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited U.S. institution or an equivalent four-year degree from an international university in these specific areas of design or a closely related field. Applicants for the MA programs in design with a concentration in interaction design must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited U.S. institution or an equivalent four-year degree at an international university.

1. Applicants for the MFA programs in design with concentrations in fashion design or interior design must have a minimum of two years of professional experience in their area of study.
2. Applicants must submit a statement of purpose/intent (500–750 words).
3. Applicants must supply a professional resumé that should list all relevant work experience, affiliations, etc.
4. Applicants must submit at least three reference letters from persons familiar with their academic or professional work.
5. Applicants must submit a portfolio of work relevant to their concentration area that includes representative professional work that exhibits their design knowledge and skills. Applicants should identify the responsibilities they fulfilled as a member of a team regarding any work they submit.   
6. Applicants for the MA in design with concentration in interaction design must supply a minimum of one writing sample; however, two samples of the applicant’s writing are preferable, one of which reflects the applicant’s scholarly or research writing ability. Writing examples that use Artificial Intelligence will be disqualified. Each writing sample will need a concluding sentence that the author of the example did not employ Artificial Intelligence to generate the writing example.

For more information about the materials that must be submitted to effectively complete an application to one of our graduate-level design concentrations, please visit cvad.unt.edu/design.

All application materials required by the Department of Design (resumes, statements of intent, portfolios or links to online portfolios, etc.) should be submitted at University of Norh Texas Graduate College Admission System (CAS).

Students are admitted to the MFA in design with concentrations in fashion design and interior design and the MA in design with a concentration in interaction design in both the fall and spring terms/semesters. International applicants must submit their materials no later than May 15 if they wish to be accepted for enrollment the following fall, or August 15 if they wish to be accepted for enrollment for the following spring.

Funding

Each semester the Department of Design can provide a limited number of teaching assistant/teaching fellow positions for graduate students. If interested, individual graduate students should complete an application to fulfill one or two of these positions each semester (cvad.unt.edu/resource/resources-graduate-scholarships-fellowships-and-assistantships).

Additional funding opportunities for Department of Design students may be available through the Toulouse Graduate School or sources outside of UNT.

Programs

• Design with a concentration in Fashion Design, MFA
• Design with a concentration in Interaction Design, MA
• Design with a concentration in Interior Design, MFA

Courses

• ADES 5410 - Foundations and Frameworks of Interaction Design
• ADES 5420 - Human-Centered Interaction Design 1
• ADES 5430 - Human-Centered Interaction Design 2
• ADES 5440 - Interaction Design Makerlab 1
• ADES 5450 - Data and Information Visualization and Design
• ADES 5460 - Interaction Design Inception-to-Pitch Capstone Project
• ADES 5510 - Processes and Methodology for Innovation
• ADES 5515 - Using Critical Methods to Guide Critical Writing in Design
• ADES 5520 - Methods Employed by Design Researchers
• ADES 5540 - Communication Design Studio
• ADES 5590 - Fashion Design Studio
• ADES 5595 - Fashion Design Topics Seminar
• ADES 5605 - Interior Design Studio
• ADES 5730 - Research in Design

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