dmitry, a common degree in the US is the 6yr. med program. Many students enter undergrad "knowing" they want to be doctors. Why not IxD's? If I can get an MD in 6 yrs (including summers I think), why not a Masters of IxD in 5 years including some intensive work (or required internships) during summers?
BTW, Jeff tells a great story and articulated beautifully the reasons for foundations in ID and Visual Design. BTW, one reason "design school" programs excite me so much that people hadn't mentioned in the other thread that I thought about b/c of this thread is the connection to all of the expressionist design programs in the same school: illustration, fashion, interior, floral, event, etc.ID, Architecture and IxD have the commonality of having really conservative clients as a rule. BTW, another type of course that no one has mentioned that I've seen at ID schools are corp projects. You've got 10 weeks to do a corporate sponsored project. Yea you can fail, unlike a real job, but when done right students really can learn a lot about the real world and what clients expects. I have so much to add in this thread about curricullum but I'll just say that no one mentioned two anthro courses (intro to socio-cultural) and ethnography for anthro design. I do think that a degree in ID (like in Syracuse) or IxD should be a minimum of a 5 yr program. Basically the coursework is the equiv of a double major. As for a masters it should be treated similarly to a masters of ID where if you weren't a bachelor w/ that degree you need to go 3 years so that you can do foundations, otherwise 2. Anyone who did not go through foundations for ID or IxD shouldn't really have a masters degree, b/c they probably didn't actually achieve a masters of craft and design thinking that that year of foundations puts you through. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30515 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
