Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
NUpath requirements Creative Expression/Innovation (EI), Interpreting Culture (IC), Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ), Analyzing and Using Data (AD), Societies and Institutions (SI), and Ethical Reasoning (ER) are met through the major course requirements.
NUpath requirements Natural and Designed World (ND) and Differences and Diversity (DD) must be met through electives.
Design Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Art + Design or Mathematics at Northeastern | ||
| ARTF 1000 | Art and Design at Northeastern | 1 |
| or INSC 1000 | Science at Northeastern | |
| Art + Design Fundamentals Required | ||
| ARTF 1220 | Elements of Visual Composition (with optional ARTF 1221) | 2 |
| Art + Design Fundamentals Elective | ||
| Complete 6 semester hours of the following: | 6 | |
| Representational Drawing | ||
| Abstract Drawing | ||
| Making with Form and Materials and Making with Form and Materials Tools | ||
| Making with Video, Sound, and Animation and Making with Video, Sound, and Animation Tools | ||
| Designing Interactive Experiences and Designing Interactive Experiences Tools | ||
| Design Required | ||
| ARTG 1001 and ARTG 1002 | Design Perspectives: An Introduction to Design in the World and Seminar for Design Perspectives | 4 |
| ARTG 1270 and ARTG 1271 | Design: Process + Practices and Studio for Design: Process + Practices | 4 |
| ARTG 1290 and ARTG 1291 | Typographic Systems and Studio for Typographic Systems | 4 |
| Design Elective | ||
| Complete 4 semester hours of ARTG courses as long as prerequisites have been met and it has not used to fulfill other requirements of the program. ARTG 2262 and ARTG 2263 are recommended. 1 | 4 | |
| Art + Design History Elective | ||
| Complete 4 semester hours of ARTH courses. ARTH 1001 Visual Intelligence and ARTH 1002 Seminar in Visual Intelligence are recommended. | 4 | |
| Art + Design Elective | ||
| Complete 4 semester hours of ARTD, ARTE, ARTF, ARTG, ARTH, ARTS, EXRE, or GAME course for which prerequisites have been met and it has not used to fulfill other requirements of the program. | 4 | |
| If ARTG 5000 Topics in Design (or any other topics course in the subjects listed above) is completed more than once, the additional completions may be allowed toward the electives. | ||
| Degree Project | ||
| ARTG 4550 | Design Degree Project | 4 |
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For students interested in the PlusOne in Information Design and Data Visualization, speak with an advisor about an alternative course option to Prototyping with Code (ARTG 2262) and Lab for ARTG 2262 (ARTG 2263).
Design Option
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete one of the following options: | 8 | |
| Creative Fabrication | ||
| Creative Fabrication Design Principles | ||
| Topics in Creative Fabrication Inquiry | ||
| Experience Design | ||
| Experience Design Principles | ||
| Topics In Experience Design Inquiry | ||
| Graphic Design | ||
| Graphic Design Principles | ||
| Topics In Graphic Design Inquiry | ||
| Information Design | ||
| Information Design Principles | ||
| Topics in Information Design Inquiry | ||
| Interaction Design | ||
| Interaction Design Principles (with optional ARTG 2401) | ||
| Topics In Interaction Design Inquiry | ||
Mathematics Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Experiential Learning Introduction | ||
| EESC 2000 | Professional Development for Co-op | 1 |
| or EEAM 2000 | Professional Development for Co-op | |
| Required Mathematics | ||
| MATH 1341 | Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering | 4 |
| MATH 1342 | Calculus 2 for Science and Engineering | 4 |
| MATH 1365 | Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning | 4 |
| MATH 2321 | Calculus 3 for Science and Engineering | 4 |
| MATH 2331 | Linear Algebra | 4 |
| MATH 2341 | Differential Equations and Linear Algebra for Engineering | 4 |
| MATH 3081 | Probability and Statistics | 4 |
| Mathematics Electives | ||
| Complete two courses in the following range: | 8 | |
MATH 3001 to MATH 4999 | ||
Integrative Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| The following course is already required in the major: | ||
| Design Degree Project | ||
Writing Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ENGW 1111 | First-Year Writing | 4 |
| or ENGW 1102 | First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers | |
| ENGW 3315 | Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines | 4 |
| or ENGW 3307 | Advanced Writing in the Sciences | |
| or ENGW 3314 | Advanced Writing in the Arts, Media, and Design | |
Combined Major Credit Requirement
Complete 80 semester hours in the major.
Science GPA Requirement (Mathematics)
A minimum 2.000 GPA in the following course codes is required: MATH.
Program Requirement
128 total semester hours required
Sample Plan of Study
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Spring/Summer First Half
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ARTF 1000 or MATH 1000 | 1 | MATH 1342 | 4 | ARTF 1220 (with optional ARTF 1221) | 2 | A+D fundamentals elective | 2 |
| ARTG 1001 and ARTG 1002 | 4 | ARTG 1270 and ARTG 1271 | 4 | A+D fundamentals elective | 2 | A+D fundamentals elective | 2 |
| MATH 1365 | 4 | ARTG 1290 and ARTG 1291 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| MATH 1341 | 4 | EEAM 2000 | 1 | ||||
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| MATH 2321 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | Elective | 4 |
| MATH 2341 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Design option level 1 | 4 | ||||||
| A+D history elective | 4 | ||||||
| EESC 2000 (For COS students) | 1 | ||||||
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| MATH 2331 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | Elective | 4 |
| Design option level 2 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Math elective | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| MATH 3081 | 4 | ARTG 4550 | 4 | ||||
| Design elective | 4 | A+D elective | 4 | ||||
| Mathematics advanced elective | 4 | Mathematics elective/capstone | 4 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 131 | |||||||