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85
% of educators
are against taking
away any liberal
arts courses, even
if it may allow
for more design
studio time.
For many schools, infusing ample liberal arts
into a design program is one way they strive to meet
professional multi-disciplinary expectations. When
surveyed, both students and educators agree with its
significance. 85% of educators were against taking
away any liberal arts courses, even if it meant it
allowed for more studio time. The ideal ratio of liberal
arts courses to art and design courses varies per each
institution’s educational objectives and their various
accrediting association requirements. But it is a crucial
nasad requirement that prescribes in addition to core
graphic design courses, curricula must direct students to
general studies that support their coursework in graphic
design and vice versa. 18 Graphic design pedagogy is at
its best when it makes valid use of multi-disciplinary
concepts and skills acquired through non-design liberal
arts coursework.
Premature specialization in schools
perpetuates a similar isolation in
practice and works against the
hybridization that is increasingly
desirable in real professions.
Dan Friedman
18 Teper, http://chronicle.com/article/
The-Creative-Campus-Who-s/4870
(accessed January 31, 2010).
19 Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller, Design
Writing Research: Writing on Graphic
Design, (London: Phaidon Press Limited,
1996), 66.
20 Igildo G. Biesele, Graphic Design
Education, (Zurich: ABC Verlag,
1981), 5.
21 Randy Pierce,“Graphic Design and
the Built Environment,” InformeDesign,
vol 1, issue 4, http://www.informe
design.umn.edu/_news/may_v01-p.
pdf (accessed January 06, 2010).
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