Reflection as a Design Skill: Building Your Value as a Designer in a Changing Global Landscape

1 credits · Undergraduate

This course is designed for and focused on sustainable career development for emerging professionals. Join us for an immersive 10-week experiential journey where students explore how innovation and leadership in career paths, whether you are an employee or entrepreneur - become more meaningful and sustainable when cored in alignment with personal purpose. We will excavate personal purpose through a series of activities and assignments that teach technical approaches to building a reflection praxis. The designers and instructors of this course are enthused to engage students in a course that through self-discovery, co-design methodologies, storytelling, reflection, creative exercises, and exposure to world-changing leaders, challenge students to design not only projects or ventures, but the foundations of the life they want to create. In a world shaped by globalization, rapid technological transformation, and unprecedented access to information and opportunity, students are also challenged to reflect on both the positive and complex realities of global business, including its power to create progress, economic and educational inequalities, connection, disruption, responsibility, and influence at scale. Rather than starting with "What should I build?", this class begins with a deeper question: "Why do I want to build at all?" Key themes include: Innovation and design thinking, personal narrative exploration,, leadership development, and design practices to help students co-design a future aligned with who they truly are and hope to become. Excitingly, key source materials for this class include highly popular design guides from the Stanford d.school literary offerings.