Design Skills That Power Your Major
Enhance your major with powerful design skills that bring your ideas to life. In the Communication Design minor, you’ll learn to create compelling visuals and digital experiences that communicate with impact, combining strategic thinking with cutting-edge tools. Whether you’re in business, engineering, arts, or sciences, you’ll develop the visual design expertise to make your work stand out and connect with audiences.
The minor includes instruction in design research methods like interviewing, observations, and surveys, as well as rapid prototyping and testing to discover what and how to create so it meets stakeholders’ needs. Students develop a refined sense of using color and typography to enhance visual communication and usability in the minor by creating designs that span logotypes, publications, presentations, and posters.
A minimum 2.50 GPA is required for admission.
Communication Design Curriculum and Courses
The courses you choose will open up a wealth of career opportunities — not lock you into one occupation. You’ll extend your education way beyond the classroom to every area of your life.
- ART 111 Visual Fundamentals: Design and Composition
- ART 227 Design Research Methods Basics
- ART 252 Typography
- ART 436 Applied Experience Design: Walt Disney World
- ART 449 Design Career Readiness
at miami, there’s something for everyone.
At Miami, Communication Design minors can:
- Learn in a small, supportive environment (About 20 students per class).
- Access Communication Design studios and production facilities 24 hours a day.
- Receive personal mentorship for seeking careers that integrate their core area of study with design.
- Learn evidence-based design methods and rapid prototyping skills to create sustainable, innovative outcomes.
- Develop skills for using industry-standard software.
- Easily combine study in design with majors in the College of Creative Arts and beyond.
Additional Opportunities for Communication Design Minors
Add Design To Your Internship Options
Enhance your career opportunities by adding design skills to your portfolio – opening doors at companies that value both your major and visual communication abilities. Work with faculty mentors to showcase how interactive design amplifies your expertise.
Connect Across Industries
Meet professionals who combine visual design with diverse backgrounds through classroom visits and studio tours, seeing firsthand how graphic design skills enhance careers in every field.
Contact Us
Dennis Cheatham
Associate Professor/Communication Design Program Coordinator
Department of Art
Hiestand Hall 223
400 S. Patterson Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-7424