Design

4-year Bachelor
2-year Master

SAFAA offers BA and MA programmes in Design on full-time basis. The programme aims to prepare highly qualified specialists for the field of design to cover a broad range of market needs.

In particular, it prepares specialists for industry, environmental design (exterior, interior), creative-projection, advertising and other areas of design. The programme offers such courses as composition, ergonomics, architectonics, bionics, drawing geometry, exterior, interior, projection and others.

At MA level the programme enable the students to pursue advanced studies in the areas of history and philosophy of design, technology, urbanism, landscape, ecology, energy, conservation, art, design and the public domain, risk and resilience, and real estate.

Internships are organized in different fields of industry and private sector.

In the 4th year of the Bachelor level, diploma defence is carried out. Master’s degree final assessment is carried out in the form of Master thesis or a complex creative compositional work defence. In case of compositional work, the graduate presents an extended explanatory or the research study (in a written form) referring to the work subject to defence. The final work should express not only students’ academic knowledge and creative abilities but also research skills. For the preparation of Master thesis or compositional work, a supervisor and an opponent are assigned to the graduate. The topic, scope, sizes are approved by the chair of Design.

Courses for students enrolled in 2018/2019 ac. year
Bachelor

Courses for students enrolled until 2018
Bachelor

Master

Contacts:

Faculty of Design and Decorative Applied Arts
Dean: Prof. Avetiq Avetisyan
Phone: (+37410) 54 36 71

Chair of Design
Head: Prof. Stepan Gyulkhasyan
Phone: (+37410) 52 70 92

Chair of Drawing and Painting
Head: PhD, Associate Professor Vahe Gasparyan
Phone: (+37410) 22 52 68