Designed to prepare students in all areas of their portfolio and professional career development. Includes portfolio organization/assessment, job market possibilities, resume and cover letter writing, making effective presentations, pricing and selling work and guidelines and ethics in graphic design. Covers the planning stages of the Senior Design show and allows for initial research and ideation studies toward the final design project (to be completed in the Spring semester during Graphic Design VI). Workshops, lectures and presentations are given in class by design professionals intended to broaden the student's scope of knowledge for the potential of their skills in the marketplace, as well as giving them insight into the profession as a whole. Designers, photographers, art directors and former students who are now working in the field are among the people that will be tapped in order to make these presentations possible. Additional course fee required. Falls. Prerequisite(s): application to and acceptance by the BFA Committee.