2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Graphic Design Certificate

Location(s): Brookings Main Campus


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Program Coordinator/Contact

Marisa TenBrink, Assistant Professor
School of Design
Chicoine Architecture, Mathematics & Engineering Hall 382, Box 2225
605-688-4103

Program Information

The certificate in graphic design is a stand-alone program and may be taken by any student regardless of major or may be selected by a variety of majors as part of their degree. The certificate prepares students for life-long avocational pursuit in the arts.

Course Delivery Format

Course content is delivered through hands-on studio work combined with lectures, demonstrations, and critiques.

Student Learning Outcomes


  • The ability to understand, conceive and create basic graphic design.
  • Understanding and the use of basic visual communication principles and process, including but not limited to theory, principles and history; creative approaches; design processes; vocabulary; spatial, temporal, and kinetic relationships; and use of typography, images, color, motion and sequencing.
  • Understanding of and the ability to use basic design technology, including but not limited to functional ability to continue to learn technology.

Academic Requirements


Students must maintain at least a program GPA of 2.6 and an overall GPA of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the duration of the program.  A grade of “C” or better is required in all courses required for the certificate.

Total Required Credits: 12


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