Art & Design Minors at FIT
Industry-aligned specializations preparing versatile, future-ready creative leaders.
AI-Assisted Design
The AI-Assisted Design minor equips students with the tools to integrate artificial intelligence into their creative processes. By balancing conceptual strategy with hands-on practice, the curriculum prepares students to leverage AI for generative design, motion design, and interactive media. While exploring these emerging workflows, students bolster their foundation in human-centered design and commit to the ethical use of technology in their professional practice.
Brand Design
The rapid advancements in creative technologies has enabled brands to engage their target audiences in ways that can never be achieved in the past. This minor focuses on multi-sensory brand design process, which is the art of engaging human senses holistically. By activating all of the available sensory channels, brands can stimulate and communicate their message through multiple senses at once, helping their audiences to “experience” their identity in more profound and memorable ways. This minor consists of five courses and each of the classes focus on one aspect of the new frontier of brand experience design.
Creative Technology
The Creative Technology minor offers a learning opportunity for students who are interested in expanding and exploring their technological knowledge and experience. This minor equips students with a fundamental understanding of digital culture, design technologies, as well as the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Creative Technology minor is open to all students in the Schools of Art and Design, Business and Technology, and Liberal Arts.
Digital Typography
As an essential part of digital design, typography can make the text more readable and accessible, convey a brand's identity and values, and be used to create a visually appealing and user-friendly interface. This minor has a flexible curriculum designed to help students in the School of Art and Design obtain an advanced understanding of applied typography, brand typography, and digital typeface design for the digital age.
Animation & Motion Design
The Animation and Motion Design minor equips students with creative and technical skills to bring stories and brands to life through movement, sound, and emerging technologies. Combining animation, motion graphics, kinetic typography, 3D modeling, and AI-assisted design, the program emphasizes storytelling and multi-sensory experiences for entertainment, media, advertising, and interactive design.
Game UX/UI Design
Through hands-on projects, students will conceptualize and design for a variety of game formats and genres, ranging from traditional board games and card games to immersive digital experiences. Emphasis is placed on learning and applying user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) principles to create intuitive and immersive player journeys. This minor is designed for students who are interested in pursuing careers in game design and for those who seek to apply UX/UI fundamentals to create fun and engaging mobile apps, interactive websites, and other digital experiences.
CT&D Course Syllabi
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