Collaborative Innovation (Minor)
The Minor in Collaborative Innovation offers students a dynamic catalyst for process-based, cross-disciplinary collaboration and learning between various academic departments in Arts & Letters, and wider disciplinary interests across the university. The minor seeks to build a strong core competency in design thinking and collaborative innovation to meet the growing demand for this skill among these various communities, attracting broad and diverse student enrollment and re-establishing the primacy of a humanistic, collaborative approach to the complex problems and integrated challenges facing a rapidly changing world.
The minor offers a five-course sequence starting with Design Matters DESN 20203, a large, introductory, lecture-based design-thinking. Declared minors will then cycle through a series of four additional courses introducing students to the various skillsets implicated in design thinking including research methods, visualization, and entrepreneurship. The minor culminates in the capstone course Collaborative Product Development DESN 40201 , bringing the minor’s various disciplines (1st majors) together in fruitful collaboration with design majors to address industry sponsored projects addressing real world questions.
Fifteen credit hours are required for the completion of this minor.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| DESN 20203 | Design Matters: Introduction to Design Thinking 1 | 3 |
| DESN 30210 | Design Research: From Insight to Innovation | 3 |
| 2 course sequence in either ID or VCD | 6 | |
| DESN 40201 | Service Design: Strategies for Social Systems 2 | 3 |
| Total Hours | 15 | |
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Students may not declare the minor until they are enrolled in or have completed this course
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Capstone course required for all minors