This is a 4-year plan for students with a Design major. Pathways courses and General Electives can be taken at any semester. Design required courses that are underlined are taken in sequence, as they are prerequisites for the next set of required courses. At least 4 out of the 8 Design Electives must be taken in the upper division (DESN 247 or higher).

Freshman Fall Semester

• English Composition I (EC1), 3 credits
• Math & Quantitative Reasoning (MQR), 3 credits
• ARTH 102* (CE), 3 credits
• World Cultures & Global Issues (WCGI), 3 credits
• US Experience in its diversity (USED), 3 credits

* ARTH 102 fulfills the Creative Expression requirement

Freshman Spring Semester

• English Composition II (EC2), 3 credits
• ARTS 151 or DESN 188, 3 credits
• DESN 190, 3 credits
• DESN 191, 3 credits
• ARTH 200-299, MEDST 100, 101, 144, 146, PHOTO 200* (CE), 3 credits

* ARTH 220, 256, 258 fulfills the Creative Expression requirement

Sophomore Fall Semester

• Life and Physical Science (LPS), 4 credits
• Individual and Society (IS), 3 credits
• DESN 193, 3 credits
• DESN 222, 3 credits
• Design Elective #1, 3 credits

Sophomore Spring Semester

• DESN 241, 3 credits
• DESN 242, 3 credits
• Scientific World (SW), 3 credits
• Foreign Language (LANG), 4 credits
• College Option Literature with Writing intensive unit (LIT + W), 3 credits

Junior Fall Semester

• DESN 245, 3 credits
• DESN 246, 3 credits
• Design Elective #2, 3 credits
• College Option Science (Science), 3 credits
• Writing Intensive (W), 3 credits

Junior Spring Semester

• DESN 345, 3 credits
• Design Elective #3, 3 credits
• Design Elective #4, 3 credits
• General Elective, 3 credits
• General Elective, 3 credits

Senior Fall Semester

• Design Elective #5, 3 credits
• Design Elective #6, 3 credits
• Design Elective #7, 3 credits
• Design Elective #8, 3 credits
• General Elective, 3 credits

Senior Spring Semester

• DESN 395, 3 credits
• General Elective, 3 credits
• General Elective, 3 credits
• General Elective, 3 credits
• General Elective, 3 credits