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4th Year

Required Courses for Design Majors
Optional Design Courses Available to Design Majors
Overloading
Completing Your Degree
Additional Certification for Design Majors
Academic Advising Before Dropping Courses

 

NOTE: Not all courses in the Design curriculum may be offered each year.

Required Courses for Design Majors*

  • FA/YSDN 4004 6.0 Design Workshop Year
  • FA/YSDN 4104 3.0 Professional Aspects of Design Year
    *both of these courses are taken only in your graduating year

 

Optional Design Courses Available to Design Majors

Communication Design Practicum Courses

  • FA/YSDN 3003 3.0 Typeface Design (formerly Typography 4)
  • FA/YSDN 3004 3.0 Communication Design 2
  • FA/YSDN 3010 3.0 Package Design
  • FA/YSDN 3011 3.0 Editorial Design
  • FA/YSDN 4005 3.0 Book Design
  • FA/YSDN 4006 3.0 Sustainable Design
  • FA/YSDN 4007 3.0 Corporate Identity Design
  • FA/YSDN 4010 3.0 Advanced Package Design (formerly 4001A)

Information Design Practicum Courses

  • FA/YSDN 3008 3.0 Information Design 2
  • FA/YSDN 3012 3.0 Information Design 3
  • FA/YSDN 3014 3.0 Environmental Graphic Design
  • FA/YSDN 3015 3.0 Typography for Information Design
  • FA/YSDN 4008 3.0 Information Design 4

Interactive/Multimedia Design Practicum Courses

  • FA/YSDN 3005 3.0 Design & Systems
  • FA/YSDN 3006 3.0 Design & Information Architecture
  • FA/YSDN 3009 3.0 Time-based Communication
  • FA/YSDN 3013 3.0 Time-based Communication 2
  • FA/YSDN 4002 3.0 Type in Motion (formerly Type Explorations)
  • FA/YSDN 4003 3.0 Interactive System Design

Design Studies Courses

  • FA/YSDN 2107 3.0 History & Development of Typography (formerly 3101A) – one section will be available for 3rd & 4th year students only
  • FA/YSDN 3102 3.0 Contemporary Problems in Design
  • FA/YSDN 3104 3.0 Design for Public Awareness
  • FA/YSDN 3105 3.0 Self, Society and Design
  • FA/YSDN 3106 3.0 Image and Influence
  • FA/YSDN 3107 3.0 Archetypes in Science, Nature, Design
  • FA/YSDN 3109 3.0 Building a Discipline
  • FA/YSDN 4102 3.0 Design Management

Beware of Overloading!
You are advised to take a maximum of three practicum courses in each of the Fall or Winter terms. Overloading of practicum courses does not allow you to produce your best work.

 

Completing Your Degree
The courses you select in your fourth year must complete the 120- credit Specialized Honours Bachelor of Design Degree requirements.

This is your responsibility! If you have any additional questions after filling out the Degree Requirements Worksheet in the York/Sheridan Program in Design Handbook, (with careful attention to degree requirements, prerequisites, co-requisites, etc.), please make an advising appointment with Antonia Schneider in the Department of Design by email: ysdn@yorku.ca .

 

Additional Certification for Design Majors

  • Professional Certificate in Digital Design
  • Cross-Disciplinary Certificate in Digital Media
  • Certificate in Community Arts Practice

Concurrent with the completion of your BDes degree requirements and with careful planning of your course selection, you may meet the requirements of one of these certificates.

Full information and application forms are available from the Office of Student & Academic Services in 201 GCFA.

 

Always Seek Academic Advising Before Dropping Courses!
Never drop a required course without consultation and academic advising from the Department of Design. There may be serious academic penalties in terms of not having the required course(s) necessary to continue to the next level of study.