Federal University Of Santa Catarina
Design
Florianópolis, Brazil
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Design programme at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina uses an open structure letting students shape their specializations and study paths. Design Project modules guide pathways; each project is taken with three supporting courses that meet prerequisites. Instructors conduct, organize, and evaluate projects that integrate course content. Keywords: design specialization, interdisciplinary practice, studio, portfolio.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can enter roles such as product designer, UX/UI designer, interaction designer, design researcher, design consultant, or design manager, working in digital product, industrial design, branding, services, research labs, or academia, and freelance or entrepreneurial practice in national and international contexts and careers.
The program follows an open organizational structure that allows flexibility among the different areas of design specialization. In this structure, students choose their own study paths according to their skills and abilities – which are often revealed during the course of their studies. The Design Project modules are responsible for guiding their academic pathway.
Each Design Project course must be taken together with three other courses which, combined together, will meet its parallel prerequisites (see figure 1). The prerequisite courses give support to the development of the project and their instructors are responsible for the conduction, organization and evaluation of the student’s project, which should be based upon the content of all courses for the knowledge to be fully achieved.
