Course Info

Requirements Overview

All Design students will complete 120 credits as follows:

  • 18 credits - General Education
  • 12 credits - Fine Arts Electives (non-YSDN)
  • 12 credits - Free electives (can be YSDN)
  • 24 credits - Design Studies
  • 54 credits - Design Practicum

Students interested in making a appointment with the faculty for course advising can send an email to ysdn@yorku.ca. Before doing this however first try downloading the planning worksheet.

First Year Bachelor of Design

First year students must enrol in the following:

  • Visual Language
  • Design & Image
  • Typography 1
  • Interactivity Design 1
  • Critical Issues in Design

Second Year Bachelor of Design

Second year students must enrol in the following:

  • Typography 2
  • Typography 3
  • Communication Design 1
  • Information Design 1
  • Interactivity Design 2
  • History of Design
  • Research in Design

  • plus one of:
  • History of Media in Graphic Design
  • Graphic Design in Canada
  • History and Development of Typography
  • Evolution of Information Design

Third Year Bachelor of Design

Third year students must enrol in the following:

  • Design Internship

  • And at least ONE of the following Design Studies courses:
  • Design for Public Awareness
  • Self, Society & Design
  • Image & Influence
Students will then choose from a range of practicum courses.

Fourth year Bachelor of Design

Graduating students must enrol in the following:

  • Design Workshop
  • Professional Aspects of Design

  • And at least ONE of the following Design Studies courses:
  • Design for Public Awareness
  • Self, Society & Design
  • Image & Influence
  • Contemporary Problems in Design
  • Design Management

Students will then choose from a range of practicum courses.

NON-YSDN Courses

To graduate all students must take:
Arts + Ideas (FACS 1900 6.0, counted as either Fine Arts or Humanities elective)
  • 6 credit Humanities
  • 6 credit Social Science
  • 6 credit Natural Science
  • 12 Credits in Fine Arts Electives, non YSDN (Design) courses.

Course Fees

All Design students pay a flat rate tuition which entitles them to 36 credits per year from Fall-Summer. Materials and book fees are extra.

For students not in the B.Des program, compulsory and voluntary supplementary fees apply. Available to non-majors by permission of the Department of Design. Students should also have basic computer literacy skills as defined by the Faculty of Fine Arts.