ADVANCED DESIGN THINKING FOR TRANSFORMATION
An empathetic, human-centered perspective that uses Design Thinking and draws from historical precedence and current research from a variety of fields to help solve complex and persistent problems such as student mental health awareness and lack of clean drinking water. Utilizes advanced design thinking techniques to enhance creative analysis and problem solving to address real-word problems with real-world constraints and the limitations of technology. Projects range from ways to improve everyday situations to community issues.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate the ability to develop and understand empathy through the practice of observation, interviewing skills and other methods. Audience: Graduate 2. Recognize how knowledge, concepts, and theories outside of the field of design are relevant to informing new approaches to design solutions. Audience: Graduate 3. Examine a wide range of problems confronting society and identify interdependencies between context practice and methods. Audience: Graduate 4. Exhibit the ability to be creative, collaborative and divergent thinkers who can generate and visually communicate multiple ideas. Audience: Graduate 5. Apply the iterative design thinking process to develop innovative solutions for challenging real world problems. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate the ability to develop and understand empathy through the practice of observation, interviewing skills and other methods. Audience: Graduate 2. Recognize how knowledge, concepts, and theories outside of the field of design are relevant to informing new approaches to design solutions. Audience: Graduate 3. Examine a wide range of problems confronting society and identify interdependencies between context practice and methods. Audience: Graduate 4. Exhibit the ability to be creative, collaborative and divergent thinkers who can generate and visually communicate multiple ideas. Audience: Graduate 5. Apply the iterative design thinking process to develop innovative solutions for challenging real world problems. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027