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Where Creativity Meets Impact
The Communication Design, B.F.A., program is designed to transform your creative passion into powerful design skills that shape the future through brand identities, compelling visuals, digital experiences, and innovative services that make life better. Master cutting-edge tools including AI and industry-standard software while working with real clients to create designs that inspire and excite. Graduate with a professional portfolio ready for an exciting career at major brands, tech companies, and design studios – or launch your own creative venture.
Contact Information
Dennis Cheatham
Associate Professor/Communication Design Program Coordinator
Department of Art
Hiestand Hall 223
400 S. Patterson Ave., Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-7424
dennis.cheatham@MiamiOH.edu
Curriculum and Courses
The Communication Design program enables learners to gain the design thinking knowledge and skills required of practicing designers in areas like communication design, user experience design, and branding. You will grow these competencies through exercises, projects, and learning experiences designed to develop practical, analytical, creative, emotional, and social intelligences. Graduates are prepared to enter a wide range of design practices as adaptable problem solvers that consider context and stakeholder need as drivers for design.
- ART 252 Typography
- ART 354 Design for Use
- ART 436 Applied Experience Design: Walt Disney World
- ART 449 Design Career Readiness
- ART 453 Highwire Brand Studio
Kara uses her human-centered skills to support communities worldwide. She founded Backyard Lots, a neighborhood-based program that transforms vacant lots in Cleveland’s Slavic Village into safe, recreational youth spaces.
Kara Isabella ’12
Additional Opportunities
Facts and Stats
Your college experience here will be one of the most exciting times of your life. To make sure of this, we’ll provide you with a powerful support system.
First-to-second year retention
Miami University Data
Among Public Universities in the United States for Four-Year Graduation Rate
OIRE
of 2021 CCA graduates employed or pursuing advanced degrees within six months of graduation
Miami University Data
Admissions Requirements
Portfolio Review
A portfolio of digital images of recent work for review by the art faculty is required for admittance to the BFA in Communication Design.
ADMISSION AND AID
This is Where Your Journey to Miami University Begins
Explore what it means to be a college student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where students prepare to go anywhere and everywhere. We’ll be here to help every step of the way as you prepare for college admission, enrollment, and success.