The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee recently approved a new Graphic Design curriculum as the College's 20th undergraduate degree major.
As part of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, the Graphic Design major focuses on an education in the applied arts, and is professionally geared within the context of a liberal arts education.
The advancing technological |
environment has brought visual information to a new and important role in many professional settings. The main goal of the Graphic Design major is to teach students how to create technically proficient work that communicates effectively. Over the course of the major, students complete a portfolio with individual career goals in mind.
Students are advised to seek internships while enrolled in the program. Both department faculty and |
the Office of Experiential Education are able to advise students on internship opportunities in advertising and design agencies, in graphic design and web design.
The new Graphic Design major provides the skills necessary for employment in a wide variety of fields such as magazine design; web design; illustration; television graphics design; layout artist/desktop publisher; and type design. |
Curry College is pleased to offer a new Continuing Education certificate program in Corporate and Business Technology. This new program, which began in May 2006, is the fourth new certificate program to be launched by Curry College in the past four years.
The Corporate and Business Technology certificate is ideal for non-technical professionals who need to understand technology and how it touches everything they do as a manager. |
"Many managers know how to use technology on a daily basis, but don't fully understand the underlying infrastructures," says Maryann Gallant, Chairperson of the Applied Technology Department at Curry, who was instrumental in designing the program in collaboration with faculty in her department and the Division of Continuing and Graduate Studies.
"This certificate will provide business professionals with the necessary tools to manage information technology |
assets in a corporate environment. Savvy managers need to focus not only on their main business but also on the infrastructure of their organization, as technology permeates every business environment within the 21st century." The 5-course certificate could be completed in under a year. For more information, please visit www.curry.edu, or contact the Division of Continuing and Graduate Studies at (617) 333-2364. |
Dean David Fedo traveled to Denver, Colorado in Fall 2005 for the annual conference of the Housing Education and Research Association (HERA). HERA is an organization that promotes excellence in the planning, development, delivery and service of decent, safe, sanitary, affordable, ecologically sound and appropriately designed housing for all people. The organization is a major forum for professional dialogue among educators, researchers and policy makers in the field of housing.
"The members of the Association were excited to see a small institution involved, thought the Curry |
Residential Property Management (RPM) curriculum was perfect and were impressed that our program launched so quickly," reports Dean David Fedo. "Bill Wollinger, President of WinnResidential and member of the Curry College RPM Advisory Board, had participated in a session with academic attendees prior to my arrival, and set the tone about the Curry program. I felt very welcome."
Curry is now one of only six institutions in the country that provide formal education in the Residential Property Management (RPM) field leading to industry certification. The other five institutions include Virginia |
Tech, Florida State, University of Georgia, University of North Texas and Ball State University.
Dean Fedo describes the RPM industry as "an exciting, dynamic and evolving field that is comprised of academics, practioners, real estate professionals, developers and elected officials."
"I heard over and over that the job market for this industry was incredibly hot," notes Dean Fedo. "With 30% of American housing comprised of apartments, condos, assisted living facilities and elderly housing, there are more jobs than people to fill them." |
