Department of Design

About Department
Design Department at College of Fine Arts / Al-Mustaqbal University has been established for the purpose of qualifying graduates as designers who could work at different types of institutions, whether public or private. It aspires, within available capabilities, to achieve Excellence at University Education, internalizing Artistic, Aesthetic, and Educational values in the Souls and Minds of Students, with main focus on Artistic and Aesthetic Research, so as to move towards innovation in teaching Design Art, and meanwhile responding to Contemporary Developments. Graduates therefore shall be qualified in accordance with Comprehensive Quality Management Standards, and as per the needs of Educational Institutions and Local Community.
Design Department adopts Structural and Formal Communication of Artistic and Aesthetic Knowledge with the various mechanisms of all Arts, especially those related to Cultivation of Artistic Taste, Literature, Criticism, and Aesthetic Values within an Artistic Vision embodied in the Art of Drawing and its Techniques. Besides, the Prescribed Curricula has been strengthened with Artistic Performance through the production of Artistic Works, as well as organizing Exhibitions, and participating in Artistic and Cultural Festivals, Seminars, and Training Courses within the relevant Artistic specializations, using Artistic Techniques, Educated Cadres, and Teachers qualified with Degrees and Practical Experiences. Accordingly, Design Department shall be a source for supplying all types of Institutions, Public and Private with Technical Cadres Specialized in the Field of Design Art, in accordance with the Specifications of Comprehensive Quality Management and Academic Accreditation, and in light of the Standards considered by the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research.
In fact, the Department focuses on Design Art as a means and not a target when teaching Students the principles of Artistic and Aesthetic Craft of Design Art in all its fields, including Print Design and Interior Design, in addition to qualifying Students in terms of Knowledge, Taste, Skill and Pedagogy.
In its Vision, Design Department aspires to become an Accredited National Entity, with the aim of promoting all aspects of Education as well as Scientific Research in the Fields of Arts and Design in Iraq and Babylon, adopting and applying the prescribed Curriculum, which focuses on spreading the culture of design in all its aspects, and thus satisfying human needs in a utilitarian and aesthetic way.
In its Mission, Design Departments aims to qualify a Designer capable of keeping pace with the permanent developments in the world of design, creatively and technologically, promoting the culture of visual communication in the Local Community, stimulating Scientific Research and Continuing Education.
Design Department Objectives can be summarized as follows:
1.Promoting Level of Design Art through the qualification of Specialized Designers.
2.Motivating Students' Personal Talents through permanent processes of training and practicing so as to get at the end highly distinguished designers.
3.Submitting Students’ Graduation Projects to Official Institutions so as to benefit from them in various Specializations, , especially those related to industrial products, such as Printing Presses, Textile Factories, and Interior Designs of Modern Official Institutions
4.Keeping pace with the great developments at International Design Methods and Techniques in order to develop Prescribed curricula, especially those of Computer Program Designs
5.Urging Students to focus on Iraqi Identity in Design, avoiding as far as possible to rely on Non-Iraqi Vocabulary or Elements in Design
6.Design Department aims to qualify Designers and Visual Artists who would serve the Environment in several Artistic and Practical Fields.
7.Design Department contributes to raising the level of Artistic Taste, spreading Aesthetic Awareness, and introducing the Outside World to the High Level that Plastic Art has reached in Babylon
8.Motivating and assisting Students to learn Artistic Techniques, in addition to training on the equipment, machines, and materials that a designer needs in his work as a Designer after graduation