The requirements, reviews, and curriculum for CCA's Graphic Design program are designed such that graduating students successfully achieve the following program learning outcomes:

• Student can generate a wide range of concepts
• Student can bring their own voice to their work
• Student can work effectively in teams to solve complex problems
• Student can perform research to develop and support a concept
• Student can employ methodologies like prototyping and user-testing to inform their design decisions

• Student has facility with a range of contemporary and traditional techniques, tools, and media
• Student takes care in the crafting of form, regardless of media
• Student demonstrates an ability to use typography effectively, appropriately, and expressively
• Student demonstrates an ability to learn how to learn technology
• Student demonstrates resourcefulness in giving form to their work
• Student understands the importance of crediting others for their work and employs the highest ethical standard when using styles and assets created by others

• Student can devise the elements of a design system (e.g. logo, type, color palette, pattern)
• Student can develop creative, diverse, and appropriate applications for a design system
• Student can relate their work to design history and trends in contemporary design
• Student can relate their work to cultural, political, economic, and environmental issues
• Student can balance personal expression with empathy for user needs
• Student can demonstrate how their work would function in the world

• Student can present their work in a clear and convincing manner, to design and non-design audiences
• Student can document their work effectively
• Student can answer questions about their work effectively
• Student can critique the work of others effectively
• Student can apply design knowledge, skills, and process beyond the classroom
• Student has a functional knowledge of professional design practices and protocols