{"id":7785,"date":"2018-10-26T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/16\/furman-offers-new-master-of-arts-in-strategic-design\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:16:39","slug":"furman-offers-new-master-of-arts-in-strategic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-offers-new-master-of-arts-in-strategic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman offers new Master of Arts in Strategic Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University has announced that it will offer a Master of Arts in Strategic Design (MA-SDG) through a collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/portfoliocenter.edu\/\">Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center in Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Furman is currently accepting applications for the program, and online registration is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/strategic-design\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Classes will begin in June of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The new master\u2019s degree is an 18-month, five-semester program that provides an advanced understanding of art and communication theory applied through a portfolio school model. The MA-SDG program replicates the creative professional environment, giving graduates practical experience, a portfolio, and a network of industry contacts to propel them into creative careers.<\/p>\n<p>The first summer term at Furman focuses on typography, communication and composition, and design thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the remaining four terms will be housed at the partner location, Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center (MAS-PC) in Atlanta, with courses supervised onsite and remotely by the Furman program director.<\/p>\n<p>The final practicum term will be held at Furman or based on practicum placement either at MAS-PC or in the industry. Twenty-two of the proposed 42 credits in the program will be taught, directed or supervised by Furman faculty.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta-based MAS-PC courses will focus on creative and strategic thinking, design and design narratives, content and content creation, and a portfolio and practicum component. Some terms will have a reflection\/vision point component led online by Furman faculty with guest seminar speakers from leaders in the advertising\/design world.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman Art Professor Ross McClain at 864-294-2215, and ross.mcclain<a href=\"mailto:troy.terry@furman.edu\">@furman.edu<\/a>. Or contact the Furman News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University has announced that it will offer a Master of Arts in Strategic Design (MA-SDG) through a collaboration with the Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center in Atlanta. Furman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45,20,43,78,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art","category-business-and-accounting","category-graduate-studies","category-strategic-design","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}