The PhD Program in the College of Design has an explicit mission: to prepare students to become public intellectuals and transformative practitioners in shaping the environment at all scales—from the planning of regions and urban areas to the design of cities, buildings, landscapes, interiors, products, and graphics all the while placing emphases on sustainability, environmental stewardship, urban and suburban revitalization, community building, and entrepreneurship.
Despite its breadth, the implicit mandate of the mission is possible for several reasons. First, the PhD Program is interdisciplinary and involves facets of all academic units—the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture, the School of Planning, the Department of Industrial Design, the Department of Interior Design, and the Department of Visual Communication Design. Second, the PhD Program has access to a pool of experts from the college’s faculty as well as faculty throughout the university including the Department of Applied Biological Sciences and the School of Sustainability. Third, the PhD Program has access to some of the best facilities found in any college of its kind. Lastly, the PhD Program is evolving on one of the most progressive and transformative educational environments in the country, commonly referred to as the New American University.
In the end, however, it is our students and graduates who reflect the quality of the PhD Program. They are all succeeding. From early on in the program, our students embed themselves in research and academic endeavors outside of the college through active participation in lectures and presentations at various national and international workshops and conferences. As graduates of the program, they climb to the top of their careers pursuing academic paths and assuming leadership roles in professional planning and design practices, the corporate sector, the public sector, and the nonprofit sector.
If your concern is more about what you want to do than rather what you want to be, then join us in the PhD Program in the College of Design.
Jacques Giard, PhD
Director of Cross-College Programs
480.965.7007
design.phd@asu.edu
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