B.F.A. (Applied Art) Communication Design Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
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 Communication Design
What the University sets
- Studio Practicals per Academic Year: 120 Hours
- Paper: 80 Marks. Duration: 10 Hours
- Assignments per Academic Year: 06 Term Work: 20 Marks
The focus
Specific purpose of communication in print media. Principles communication - Exposure of various media to consumer - Characteristics various media in terms of its size, visibility, duration, placement, reproduction techniques etc
What is taught
- Daily consumer - Consumer durable products
- Assignments based on the principles of design
- Importance of colour
- Press layout. Size upto 3 columns x 30 cms. Or 100 cc
- Magazine Advertisement. Size: Single page. 21cms x 28 cms Poster Design. Size upto 10 inches x 15 inches. Or 25 cms x 30 cms Hoarding Design. Size upto 10 inches x 20 inches. Or 25 cms. X 50 cms — =>
Term work
Term Work shall'consist of at least 06 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 of the 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.