Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Course (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - This foundational course presents a chronological and thematic survey of graphic design and design culture from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Through slide lecture, reading and writing assignments, and discussion groups, students actively investigate how graphic design responded to and influenced the social, political and technological world around it. While, emphasis had been on European and American design histories, as well as major movements in Russia and the East this course will implement a plural pedagogy as a method to include more multicultural voices. Particular effort will be made toward showing, discussing, and including artists, designers, and writers who represent people, cultures, and aesthetics historically excluded from Eurocentric narratives about art and design. Comparative and symbiotic relationships between graphic design and other visual arts and design disciplines such as architecture and industrial design will be analyzed. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.

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