MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAM
- Field of study: 54.04.01 Design
- Profile (major): Graphic design
- Degree certificate: Master's
- Duration of study: 2 years
- Complexity: 120 credit units
- Mode of study: Intramural
- Language of study: Russian
The program’s mission is to develop students' personal qualities, as well as the formation of universal, general professional and professional competencies in accordance with the requirements of the educational standard in the field of study 54.04.01 Design considering graduate’s professional activities as 11.013 Graphic designer.
Objectives and outcomes
Students in the major learn:
- Graduates’ universal competencies:
- Systematic and critical thinking
- Development and implementation of projects
- Teamwork and leadership
- Communication
- Intercultural interaction
- Self-organization and self-development (including health care)
- Graduates’ general professional competencies:
- Be able to apply knowledge in the field of history and theory of art, history and theory of design in professional activities; consider works of art and design in a broad cultural and historical context in close connection with the religious, philosophical and aesthetic ideas of a particular historical period
- Be able to work with scientific literature; collect, analyze and summarize the results of scientific research; evaluate the information received; perform certain types of work when conducting scientific research using modern scientific methods; learn independently; acquire and use new knowledge and skills in practical activities; participate in scientific and practical conferences; make reports and messages
- Be able to develop a conceptual design idea; synthesize a set of possible solutions and scientifically substantiate proposals when developing design objects that satisfy the utilitarian and aesthetic needs of humans (machinery and equipment, vehicles, interiors, environment, printing, consumer goods); put forward and implement creative ideas
- Be able to organize, conduct and participate in art exhibitions, competitions, festivals; develop and implement innovative artistic and creative events, presentations, installations, show creative initiative
- Be able to carry out teaching activities under vocational education and additional professional education programs
- Graduates’ professional competencies:
- Be able to express creative ideas using visual media
- Be able to conduct pre-project design studies
- Be able to design objects for visual information, identification and communication
- Be able to coordinate a design project with the customer
- Be able to lead the work of a creative team in the development of design code, corporate identity, objects and systems of visual information, identification and communication
- Be able to plan, organize and control the use of digital technologies to solve professional problems in the field of graphic design
Curriculum
The program includes a mandatory part and a part formed by the participants in educational relations. The volume of the mandatory part, excluding the volume of the state final certification, is at least 45% of the total volume of the program in the field of study 54.04.01 Design.
The volume of the program implemented in one academic year is no more than 70 ECTS regardless of the mode of study, the educational technologies used, the implementation of the program using a network form, the implementation of the program according to an individual curriculum (with the exception of accelerated education), and in case of accelerated education - no more than 80 ECTS.
In accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education, the structure of the master’s program in the field of study 54.04.01 Design includes the following blocks:
- Block 1 “Disciplines (modules)”;
- Block 2 “Practice”;
- Block 3 “State final certification”.
Careers
Professional standards correlated with the federal state educational standard in the field of study 54.04.01 Design.
| PS code | PS code and name | Job description |
| 11 Mass media, publishing and printing | 11.013 Graphic designer |
C/01.7 Conducting pre-project design studies
C/02.7 Development and coordination with the customer of a design assignment for the creation of visual information, identification and communication systems C/03.7 Conceptual and artistic-technical development of design projects for visual information, identification and communication systems D/01.7 Planning work on the development of objects and systems for visual information, identification and communication D/02.7 Organization of work on the implementation of design projects for objects and systems of visual information, identification and communication D/03.7 Performing control in the production of design projects for objects and visual information, identification and communication systems |
Main tasks of professional activity of graduates
| Area of professional activity | Types of professional tasks | Professional tasks | Objects of professional activity (or areas of knowledge) |
| 11 Mass media, publishing and printing | artistic and creative | Development of the concept of artistic execution of graphic design objects | Artistic execution of graphic design objects, art design, examination of graphic design objects. |
| 11 Mass media, publishing and printing | project | Development of design objects, creation of corporate identity | Subject-spatial environment that satisfies the utilitarian and aesthetic needs of a person (printing, visual products). |
| 11 Mass media, publishing and printing | organizational and managerial | Management of activities for the development of design code, corporate identity, objects and systems of visual information, identification and communication | Design projects at various stages of design, systems for approving project documentation. |