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Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences

Graphic Design

integrating words & images

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Photography

through the lens of students' work

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Typography

the art & science of letter forms

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Creative & Professional Writing

publishing your writing

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Sight. Sound. Motion.

video, motion graphics & more

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School of Communications Design

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Executive Director
Stephanie Gibson
410.837.6050

Academic Program Coordinator
Karen King-Sheridan
410.837.6039

Academic Program Specialist
 Marian Savige
410.837.6038

We keep ourselves busy.

When we're not teaching, studying, learning or otherwise improving the future of the communications, design and marketing fields, we like to support and provide homes to various projects:

  • Passager 's mission is to explore the imagination during writers' later years and to unearth the passion so often attributed to the young. As our writer friend Djelloul Marbrook said to us about his own work, "I've been writing all my life and finally I have something to say!"  Passager journal publishes two issues per year of poetry, fiction and memoir from writers older than 50.
  • For more than 20 years, Passager Books has published first books by new older writers whose work has appeared in the journal. Learn more about Passager Books' latest offerings.
  • Welter has been the University of Baltimore's student-produced literary journal for more than 45 years; it features students' poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction and artwork.
  • CityLit Project nurtures the culture of literature in Baltimore and throughout Maryland. It creates enthusiasm for literary arts, connects a community of avid readers and writers, and opens opportunities for young people and diverse audiences to embrace the literary arts. The project is in residence in the School of Communications Design.

Examine the marriage of art & commerce, words & images and old & new media.

Making ideas public—that's how the School of Communications Design defines its goal. Its programs blur the boundaries between creativity & practicality, between the arts and sciences & the real world.

The school offers opportunities to study traditional creative forms—poetry, fiction, drama, epic—as well as emerging media, including Web design and video, all presented within a historical and cultural context.

Our state-of-the-art Digital Design Studio lets students learn and practice desktop publishing; image creation, correction and manipulation; animation and Web design. Our Media Lab is the perfect place to explore studio and location digital video and audio production. The Ampersand Institute for Words & Images offers workshops, lectures and other public events that promote dialogue about the present and future of communication.

Our faculty produce a range of creative and professional work, including articles in scholarly and popular magazines and journals; academic, literary and commercial books; stories, poems and creative nonfiction; advertising, public relations and corporate identity pieces; films, videos and Web sites.

Our students and alumni work in major design, publishing and communications concerns in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.