Students are required to exhibit their master’s project in the annual M.F.A. group exhibition held in the spring. The exhibition should present the master’s project as the culmination of a considered research and design process with a clear rationale and goal, rather than as an isolated object of aesthetic contemplation whose purpose and meaning are left wholly open to interpretation. Students should explain their research problem and design process in the exhibition in ways that are accessible to a general audience. Although the master’s project itself is pass/fail, the exhibition usually constitutes a graded component of DES 392, Professional Communication of Research.