The Department of Design | Media Arts is committed to educating responsible designers and artists for the information age by teaching the fundamentals of design, media, and the arts, and encouraging experimentation and innovation. Providing an extensive education in design and media arts practice, history and criticism, the department fosters a critical and creative exploration of emerging forms of visual communication, typographies, interaction and interface design, ubiquitous computing, virtual environments, information spaces, networked agents and all other pertinent areas of research.