平面设计师通过创造具有文化意义的交流和体验来丰富社会。休斯顿大学平面设计课程的学生通过多样化的课程来学习平面设计的知识，其中包括设计历史，理论，方法和实践方面的课程。研究和概念发展是本课程不可或缺的一部分，因为它研究当代文化和新兴的传播媒体。通过个人询问和小组合作的过程，学生成为批判性和想象力的思想家。低的师生比例确保了有效的课堂学习，其中包括动手设计以及分析和讨论。除了跨学科的协作，演讲技巧，团队建设，社区拓展，道德和可持续实践之外，学生还将学习各种设计方法和技术，这些工具将成为全国设计工作市场上的顶级
The Graphic Design program at the University of Houston prepares students for a career in design through a comprehensive investigation of design practices, theories and methods. Success is fostered through individual inquiry and group collaboration to promote critical and imaginative thinking. A tight cohort within a sequenced curriculum provides content flexibility, ensuring the most innovative education within a continually shifting media environment. Design research, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional cross-pollination, team building, community outreach, ethical inquiry and sustainable practices are all tools that position our students to become top competitors in the national design job market and leaders within the profession. Engagement with the broader Houston community and its leadersgives our designers real-world experience and situates their practice in a larger sociocultural framework. At the undergraduate level, emerging designers utilize these skills and approaches as they begin their careers in the field. At the graduate level,personal research initiatives advance the designers'practicesto preparethemfor the next phase of their careers in design.