ADV CERT in Design History

Graduates of the program will be able to analyze, interpret, and connect, in written and oral presentations, processes and networks of production, circulation, sustainability, and display of designed objects, spatial sensibilities, and critical discourses around the various design disciplines across cultures and histories.

Employ the questions, vocabulary and perspectives specific to design history and theory.

Demonstrate the ability to conduct skilled and creative research using a variety of materials, resources and methods specific to the fields of interior design history, industrial design history, fashion history, illustration, as well as graphic and communications design history.

Critically engage in the ongoing dialogue about the methodology of design history.

Articulate the complexities and ambiguities of multiple perspectives in design history and theory based on coursework that foregrounds inclusivity, diversity as priorities.