专业概况
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The first degree-bearing program of its kind, MICA’s MA in Social Design is an intensive, practice-based graduate program that prepares creative change-makers with the tools and methods to advance equity and social justice and become pioneers and leaders in the practice.
Throughout the 1-year program, students will:
- Increase Social Literacy—Develop a deeper understanding of the issues of equity, power, race and privilege that exist at the heart of the social problems we aim to address.
- Deepen Design Literacy—Establish an ethical framework to guide personal practice and learn human-centered design methods to build empathy with and engage people in making and doing.
- Create Professional Pathways—MA in Social Design alumni are pioneering and innovative leaders in the public, private, non-profit, entrepreneurial and academic sectors.
Program Overview
MICA’s M.A. in Social Design is a 1-year, interdisciplinary graduate program that explores the designer’s role and responsibility in society. The 30-credit program is comprised of seminar, studio, and elective courses as well as a variety of other immersive and practice-based experiences that take students outside of the institution to learn. Examples include:
- Visiting Faculty—In addition to core faculty and staff, MA in Social Design students learn from visiting faculty across a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.
- Practice-based Studio—MA in Social Design students are eligible to enroll in semester-long courses that bring students from a variety of disciplines together with outside partners from government, nonprofit and business sectors to learn and apply the human-centered design process.
- Human-centered Design Intensive—MA in Social Design students learn and experience the human-centered design process in a multi-day, immersive project with a local partner facilitated by a leading practitioner in the field.
- Graduate Fellowships—MA in Social Design students put their skills into practice in professional contexts through paid, part-time fellowships with a variety of institutions during the academic year.
- Capstone—MA in Social Design students undertake an immersive, design-driven project that focuses on a specific social problem and applies the methods, tools, and frameworks learned in the curriculum.
- Post-graduate Associates—MA in Social Design graduates are eligible for associate positions within the Center for Social Design to build a professional practice and deepen their work in Baltimore after they graduate.
所属院系
进入哪个院系学习？ Maryland Institute College of Art
中国学生入学要求
为来自中国的学生设计 Applicants must have Digital transcripts from the last degree-granting institution. TOEFL: A minimum overall band score of 75 on the IBT Test; A minimum score of 6.0 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is required.
课程信息
学制：全日制(1 年)
学费：US$48,510.00 (¥ 308,616) /年
开学时间：2022九月27日, 2022一月17日
申请截止日期：预计在March 2023
留学地点：Maryland Institute College of Art1300 West Mount Royal Avenue,BALTIMORE,Maryland,21217, United States
