Graduate Skills for Students of the

Digital Art & Design Program

Graduate skills profile

The Digital Art and Design program has a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) that consists of employers, graduates and educators. This committee is instrumental in guiding the evolution and activities of the Digital Art & Design program. At each meeting of this committee we review the skills our graduates need for their careers. This is the most recent list of skills:

• Problem solving & critical thinking;
• Oral & written communications;
• Visual literacy;
• Communications process;
• Marketing & advertising;
• Typography & design;
• Computing—www, networks, applications, operating systems;
• Business—project management, small business skills, self promotion;
• Team & social skills;
• Flexibility;
• Continuous learning skills and habits;
• The ability to acquire and to apply theoretical and analytical knowledge;
• A sense of responsibility for the cultural debris one creates;
• The ability to research and maintain an expertise on the boundaries and frontiers of one or more discipline specialties without sacrificing a well-rounded base of core knowledge and skills.