SDSU School of Art, Design, and Art History

Undergraduate Applied Design Studies

The goals of the Applied Design area are to encourage the undergraduate student to explore the media offered within the area as a means of making an expressive personal statement, and to develop a mature statement that requires both manipulative and intellectual capabilities. This will occur through the introduction of the tools and techniques of the various media as the content of art and the study of contemporary aesthetic form is explored as related to its historical references and antecedents.

Strengths in the Applied Design program include a range of courses offered in clay, fiber, metal and wood as well as the diversity and national reputations of the design faculty. The success of former students is measured by those who are teaching at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in foreign countries, and the great number of students who are practicing gallery artists involved with gallery exhibitions and commissioned work. Facilities for the Applied Design area are above average and in many cases excellent.

Students from the Applied Design program frequently go on to graduate studies, work in arts related fields, or become practicing artists in their chosen field.

The following areas listed below are the four primary programs within the Applied Design emphasis. Please select one of these programs for more in-depth undergraduate studies information.

• Ceramics
• Fiber
• Furniture/Woodworking
• Jewelry/Metalwork

This page was last updated at 9:48AM on May 3, 2011