B.F.A. (Applied Art) Graphic Design Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the University of Mumbai syllabus for the B.F.A. (Applied Art), the Revised Course approved under Item No. 4.30 and in force from the academic year 2004-2005. It is old, and it is current: the University still examines this scheme, and the subjects below are the ones set in its Summer 2026 examinations. It is the only B.F.A. (Applied Art) syllabus the University has published.
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Syllabus for Graphic Design
What the University sets
- Studio Practicals per Academic Year: 80 Fours
- Paper: 80 Marks. Duration: 5 Hours
- Assignments per Academic Year: 04. a Term Work: 20 Marks
The focus
Graphic Design is an idea-based discipline that concerns the creation visual material involving a union of text and image with primary focus on creative and effective design for communication. Understanding, analysing and evaluating data - information and-generating communicative symbology for idea-based design solution. The assignments should be designed to encourage conceptual thinking and problem solving in context to design development
What is taught
- The nature.and scope of Graphic Design
- The difference between simplified and graphic design - simplification of a form from its realistic / photographic source ~- maintaining its identity - its symbolic interpretations
- Union of text and image. (Composing elements.)
- Rendering styles (Contours, filled up, outline)
- Use of colour. Symbolic - Visibility aspect of colour
Term work
Term Work shall consist of at least 04 assignments covering the given syllabus, duly performed, completed and graded, carrying a weightage of 20 marks. Student must gain at least 40% of the total marks allotted for the Term Work academic year, in order to make him/her eligible to appear for the examination.
The University published this syllabus as scanned pages, with no machine-readable text. The wording below is transcribed from those pages and checked against a second, independent reading of the same scan. The PDF above is the University's own page, unaltered, and is the authority wherever the two differ.
The complete syllabus
This subject is cut from the University of Mumbai's own B.F.A. (Applied Art) syllabus document. The whole document is here:
The document ends with a Bibliography for the whole degree rather than a reading list per subject. Its last page — the list of books, after the periodicals and annuals — is missing from every copy that can be reached while the University's own site is down, so it is not reproduced here.