Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design

at Enrollment Advisory Group - University of Bridgeport USA

The four-year Bachelor in Fine Arts in Graphic Design, BFA degree program consists of an integrated, inter-disciplinary sequence that is designed to strengthen communication skills, promote teamwork and individuality, stimulate creativity, and provide both traditional and technological skills for the career-oriented student.

Graphic Design students learn techniques and processes to build their portfolios with works prepared for both traditional print and new media including typography, branding and identity, promotional campaigns, publications, motion, and interactive. Typefaces, logos, and websites, drawing, painting, and video: all part of the SASD Graphic Design Program. The program emphasizes process, real-world community projects, and skill-building toward a final self-directed project in the senior year. SASD is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the governing body of undergraduate and graduate art and design schools.

Graphic Design Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate ability to identify, analyze, and solve graphic design problems. Assessment: Portfolio projects appropriately respond to project briefs, and are clear, focused, expressive, and communicative solutions to the stated problems.
• Demonstrate mastery of design tools, techniques, and concepts in graphic design. Assessment: Projects and portfolios that evidence craftsmanship, adherence to project parameters, and appropriate selection of typefaces, images, composition, and implementation.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the aesthetics of form development and of the history and current state of design.
• Demonstrate proficiency in selection and use of relevant technologies in design. Abilities to use available technical and industrial processes to produce a design product, and to design and implement such a process. Assessment: Project and portfolio materials are made with the appropriate technology or software for the final application. Projects are planned to be feasibly reproducible by industrial/commercial means rather than by one-off or by hand.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural and societal connections linking graphic design trends and processes as well as a knowledge of business practices and of the market place. Assessment: Projects and portfolio solutions that are culturally- and audience-appropriate for the problem as posed by the brief for the project
• Demonstrate proficiency in presenting their own work as well as discussing and constructively critiquing the work of others. Assessment: Active participation in class critiques; clear, thoughtful presentation of students’ own projects, ability to give, accept, and incorporate feedback.

The Bachelor in Dental Hygiene BS degree program is completed through the integration of Associate’s degree dental hygiene courses and Bachelor’s degree courses, or by continuing studies after completing an Associate’s degree at an accredited School of Dental Hygiene.

Expand your opportunities

The University of Bridgeport baccalaureate degree completion approach is available to Fones students as well as to graduates of other accredited Dental Hygiene programs. With 60 to 90 transfer credits, a student may achieve a Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene in two additional years. Education at the baccalaureate level, which combines the professional dental hygiene curriculum with a liberal arts education, enhances the dental hygienist’s opportunities, skills, background knowledge, and professional values.

Upon satisfactory completion of semester hours in the areas of study specified, the student will be recommended for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene.

Students pursuing a B.S. Degree in Dental Hygiene have the opportunity to design a portion of their curriculum to meet personal career goals. The outcome of this planning process is an individualized program that enables dental hygienists to gain desired knowledge and skills and directly transfers this expertise to a professional work setting. Students may identify a minor in human services, education, marketing, or psychology, to name a few subject areas.

Learning Outcomes
Through completion of the entry-level dental hygiene curriculum, students will achieve the following outcomes

• Characterize professionalism and responsibility in all health promotion and disease prevention activities
• Apply a professional code of ethics while adhering to appropriate legal and regulatory measures when providing oral health services
• Utilize critical thinking, problem solving, and evidence-based decision making in the dental hygiene process of care
• Provide the dental hygiene process of care (assessment, dental hygiene diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation, documentation) for patients/clients in all settings
• Communicate effectively with and deliver culturally competent, inter-professional health care to individuals and groups from diverse populations
• Demonstrate the knowledge necessary to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate community-based oral health programs
• Continually perform self-assessment to maintain professional standards and encourage life-long learning
• Value the need for personal and professional growth through participation in professional activities and associations
• Understand and master the competencies of Dental Hygiene Professional Practice

UB’s Master of Arts and Master of Science in Biology degree programs offer a contemporary curriculum that emphasizes the principles and experimental approaches of modern biology. They are designed to address the diverse needs of each type of graduate-level biology student. Both programs cover a wide-range of biological sub-disciplines, such as toxicology, ecology, and genetics, to prepare you for greater opportunities both professionally and academically.

Benefits to our program include:

• Small student-to-faculty ratio, which allows you to work closely with elite faculty who are active in and recognized for research in the field
• Opportunity to learn from and connect with featured guest speakers
• Close proximity to leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies for internship and future employment opportunities
• State-of-the-art laboratory facilities at out seaside campus

Three degree programs are offered through the UB General Studies program: Associate in Arts (AA), Associate in Science (AS.) and Bachelor of Science (BS) in General Studies. These degrees offer maximum flexibility to explore curricula of the different undergraduate programs at the University.

In the BS in General Studies program, students work with an academic advisor to design an academic program tailored to their specific needs and goals. For example, one might combine a Business Studies concentration that focuses on Marketing and Management with a minor in Mass Communications, or combine a Social Sciences concentration that focuses on Psychology and Sociology with a Human Services minor. The Natural Sciences and Mathematics concentration is frequently used to fulfill the science prerequisites for graduate study in the health professions, leaving a student room to explore the undergraduate curriculum in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Human Services.

The B.S. in General Studies is an excellent option for transfer students since it allows the maximum number of free electives permitted by the university. Program graduates have attended business, law, and medical school. Many have gone on to careers in education, human services, and community service. This program is offered at our main Bridgeport campus, as well as the Waterbury Center location.

Learning Outcomes
By completing the program in General Studies, students will:

• be able to communicate effectively in writing so that one may advance professionally and apply to graduate programs.
• be able to comprehend, analyze, and interpret texts in a variety of disciplines.
• be able to present orally one’s own thoughts and plans.
• be able to recognize a problem and devise a plan of action to solve it.
• be able to show mastery of several disciplines within an academic area of concentration.
• demonstrate an ethical mindset and exercise professional responsibility in a global context.

Known for offering an education for the careers of tomorrow, the University of Bridgeport is pleased to announce a new undergraduate program in Digital Marketing Communication. The innovative program is offered in a face-to-face setting with close student-faculty collaboration.

You will gain first-hand experience in developing digital marketing plans and integrate marketing, advertising, public relations, sales, and logistics strategies across physical and digital channels. This includes instruction in digital marketing, e-commerce, online consumer psychology, search engine optimization, social media marketing and web analytics.

Today’s marketing world is vastly different than in past decades when you focused on just one skill. You may apply your skill set to multiple tasks daily from creative conceptualizing, to writing for social, to funneling conversion strategy, to directing a photo shoot for an advertorial, to sourcing materials, to meeting with vendors, and more.

Digital marketing careers enjoy better-than-average job growth. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates job demand will increase 10 percent by 2026.

The average entry-level wage for a digital marketing specialist or digital manager is $40,453-$44,156,* with a range of $86,575- $124,207 for more experienced digital marketing managers.

A Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) will provide the student with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue many new and different careers in modern society, including careers that have yet to be invented.

Electronics Design and Nanotechnology

The EE department has an electronics design program that is state-of-the-art, with emphasis on very large scale integrated circuits design (VLSI) on a microscopic scale and with a new emphasis of VLSI design on a nanometer-scale as well. A series of VLSI courses (i) design (Analog and Digital VLSI, radio frequency VLSI, low power VLSI), (ii) fabrication (microelectronic fabrication and nanotechnology), and (iii) testing (VLSI testing) are available. A closely related field is mirco- and nano-technology MEMS (microelectromechanical systems). Micro-MEMS designs systems of electronics and motion the size of microns. The smaller nano-MEMS builds systems the size of individual molecules. Nano-MEMS is used to create the next generation of VLSI components, including single-electron-transistors, nano-wires, and quantum computers.

Our department has a strong concentration in signal analysis, including the analysis of human speech vs. noise and the transmission of signals via satellite or cable or cell tower.

The EE department has a large PLC lab. Programmable Logic Control consists of 2 parts. You build an assembly line to move products and to do things to these products; for example, a robot arm will sort products or load them on to a platform. To control this assembly line, you need to implement the necessary computer code.

Students in the M.S. Electrical Engineering Program will be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to use techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
• Demonstrate the ability to plan and conduct laboratory experiments and interpret and report results
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and apply concepts of engineering economics and project planning
• Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary global and societal issues and their relationship and exercise strong oral and written communication skills including those needed for technical writing

The Bachelor's degree in Business Administration major provides the maximum flexibility in course selection for a student to fulfill both personal and professional goals. Upon completion of University and College core requirements, the student may pursue a myriad of unique combinations of study to satisfy either a general or specific purpose. This includes combining study from two or three of the major disciplines of study within the college including those disciplines not listed in this catalog such as Economics and Management Information Systems, and combinations with other colleges at the University. In all cases, the student’s study program must be approved by the student’s faculty advisor.

Students interested in adding a Teacher Certification to a program in Business Administration can do so. A brief description of the teacher certification requirements appears elsewhere in this catalog under the School of Education section.

The Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration permits a student, upon completion of the core business requirements and prerequisites applicable to all business degrees, to create a unique combination of courses in business or other academic disciplines.

All business courses listed under other majors as well as courses in other academic disciplines such as political economy, psychology or sociology, may be chosen as elements of this major.

Learning Outcomes

• Students demonstrate well-developed knowledge in all - and mastery in at least one - of the basic business disciplines (accounting, business analytics & intelligence, economics, finance, International Business, management, marketing, and sport management).
• Students demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills in a business context in both formal and informal settings.
• Students will develop professional skills and an awareness of diversity across the spectrum of differences and consider these differences in the analysis of global realities and challenges.
• Students will demonstrate proficiency with technology, analytical techniques for decision-making and will understand the impact and opportunities offered by information technology in business.
• Students exhibit knowledge of current issues using creativity and innovation.
• Students identify, evaluate, and recommend possible courses of action related to the application of ethical business principles and will develop a personal ethical decision-making framework.
• Students will be critical thinkers and problem-solvers thereby enabling them to successfully lead in a dynamic global environment.

The Associate in Arts in Business Administration degree program at UB provides options for students who want only two years of college study and students who are not certain about their degree objectives. This undergraduate degree program requires that all freshman and sophomore core business courses and business prerequisites, as well as University core requirements, be completed with an average grade of “C” or better.

Two-year business study at the University of Bridgeport provides many advantages not usually available to junior college or two-year college students. All the resources of the university are available to two-year students as readily as for bachelor’s or MBA students. This includes planning/placement services and all of the social, sports and extracurricular activities of the campus.

Students receive all the guidance and advising of a small, two-year college, while completing their studies in the environment of an internationally accredited business program provided by a major university. The A.A. degree in Business Administration does not have ACBSP accreditation.

Learning Outcomes

• Acquire basic general business knowledge
• Develop practical technical skills necessary for initially pursuing a junior level entry position
• Learn how to communicate with others in their organization
• Understand the role of business in the larger society
   

The Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, MS degree program prepares the student for a successful professional career through advanced study in design, development, analysis, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems for a wide range of industries, including transportation, automation, medical, energy generation, electronic, sports and aerospace.

The program combines core mechanical engineering courses with technical electives that enable the student to increase his/her knowledge and competence in essential skills for Mechanical Engineering while affording sufficient freedom to provide in-depth study in both traditional and contemporary curriculum tracks and explore emerging interdisciplinary areas.

The technical areas supported by the department include General Mechanical Engineering, Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Management, Mechanics and Materials, Thermal Fluid Systems and Sustainable Energy, Biomechanical Engineering, Mechatronics and Automation, and Sports and Aeronautical Engineering.  The student is required to design an individualized program of study with the help and approval of his/her faculty advisor to meet his/her academic and career goals.

Customized study plans also allow receiving the Mechanical Engineering M.S. degree while pursuing another M.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Technology Management, and MBA.  Two degree students in these two programs should consult their respective advisors to work on their individualized plans.

The department is the home of the CNC Mini Milling Machine Laboratory, Computer Aided Engineering and Rapid Prototyping Laboratory, the Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and the Electronics Thermal Management Laboratory. Students can also access the other laboratories in the School of Engineering. Some classes are taught by adjunct faculty from local industries and faculty from other engineering departments at UB.

Learning Outcomes
Students in the M.S. Mechanical Engineering Program will be able to:

• demonstrate the ability to design or analyze a system, component or process to meet desired needs within realistic, contemporary constraints such as health and safety, ethics, performance, sustainability, and economics
• develop specialized advanced skills in mechanical engineering fields including fluid mechanics, heat transfer, material science, dynamics, vibrations, numerical methods, design, and manufacturing
• demonstrate the ability to use techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
• demonstrate the ability to create, adapt, transfer and integrate existing and emerging technologies into new products, processes, and services
• develop decision making, risk assessment and problem-solving skills considering both economic and other constraints
• develop both technical and management oral presentation and written communication skills

The College of Public and International Affairs Bachelor, BA, in Criminal Justice and Human Security degree program, allows students interested in pursuing a career in criminal justice to develop expertise in the international dimensions of public safety.

Students in the degree may choose from one of three areas of concentration

• Human Security
• Comparative Justice
• Criminology

The degree requires two years of college-level study of a foreign language or demonstrated working competency in a foreign language. Students have the option of choosing from Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and French.

Qualified students also have the option of earning a Masters degree in Business Administration or in Global Development and Peace by completing a fifth year of study beyond the normal years.

UB Criminal Justice track students are also encouraged to take courses in Martial Arts. Internships with law enforcement agencies are also available.

Learning Outcomes

The B.A. in Criminal Justice & Human Security has the following learning outcomes

• Students will demonstrate the progressive acquisition of the oral, written critical thinking skills needed to succeed in graduate level study as well as the required skills for careers in domestic and international security
• Students will be able to identify the essential elements of criminal justice
• Students will be able to articulate the importance of Human Security and explore its impact on domestic and international security
• Students will demonstrate the language skills and intercultural understanding required for effective law enforcement in today’s globalized society
• Students will be able to describe the role played by religious, ideological, and cultural views; ethnic and tribal identities; and economic status in rationalizing criminal behavior
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the role played in criminal behavior by socioeconomic inequities and societal injustice, resulting from domestic and non-domestic events
• Students will be able to comment on the role played by non-state actors in areas such as the identification of norms, the acceptability of violence and terrorism in promoting policy changes and in preventing crime.