Industrial Design: four-year plan

How to read this plan

This is a sample path to the B.F.A. in Industrial Design in four years at about 15–16 credits per term. Your actual plan depends on placement, transfer credit, a chosen concentration, and when courses are offered — build it with your adviser and check it against your degree audit. Course numbers link to the catalog.

Year 1 · Fall 14 credits

• UNIV 1000 First-Year Seminar (1 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
• MATH 1400 Precalculus (4 cr)
• IDES 1200 Design Sketching and Visualization (3 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)

Year 1 · Spring 15 credits

• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• MATH 1600 Introductory Statistics (3 cr)
• IDES 1400 Design Process I (3 cr)
• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 cr)

Year 2 · Fall 16 credits

• MATH 2400 Calculus I (4 cr)
• IDES 2200 Materials and Manufacturing (3 cr)
• IDES 2400 Model Making and Prototyping (3 cr)
• Fine Arts elective (3 cr)
• Humanities elective (3 cr)

Year 2 · Spring 15 credits

• IDES 2600 CAD for Product Design (3 cr)
• IDES 3200 Human Factors and Ergonomics (3 cr)
• Social Science elective (3 cr)
• Global Perspectives elective (3 cr)
• PHIL 2300 Ethics (3 cr)

Year 3 · Fall 11 credits

• IDES 3400 Design Process II (3 cr)
• IDES 3600 Sustainable Product Design (3 cr)
• IDES 4900 Industrial Design Capstone (3 cr)
• Wellness elective (2 cr)

Year 3 · Spring 15 credits

• Major or concentration elective (3 cr)
• Major or concentration elective (3 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)
• COOP 2000 Cooperative Education (recommended) (0 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)

Year 4 · Fall 12 credits

• Major or concentration elective (3 cr)
• Major or concentration elective (3 cr)
• Major or concentration elective (3 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)

Year 4 · Spring 12 credits

• Major or concentration elective (3 cr)
• Major or concentration elective (3 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)