The MFA in Visual Design emphasizes communications and problem solving.
Students explore visual communications in the widest sense of the word.
Faculty, representing a wide variety of philosophies and viewpoints, work together with students, providing a rich and thought-provoking graduate experience. The modern visual designer must be broadly educated, articulate, and literate in today's competitive field, and UMass Dartmouth faculty are well versed in traditional and electronic design technology. A minimum of 60 credits is required. While creative activity in Artisanry speaks in a language common to the disciplines of the Fine Arts and Design, the Program in Artisanry's orientation finds its roots in the craft revival that began in the 1950s. It emphasizes the uniquely made object, and the direct relationship between object and the artist and object, and between object and culture.