Prerequisite: Admission to Bachelor of Science in Design program; or Permission of Instructor. 

“Collaborative Studio” is offered as a vertical studio experience that crosses the disciplinary boundaries between our various academic design programs. To create the conditions needed for this type of experience, we offer multiple sections of these courses, each with a different topic, and some unorthodox enrollment constraints.

To achieve the “vertical studio” experience:

• Third-year Undergraduate Design students enroll DESIGN 4650: Collaborative Design
• Fourth-year Undergraduate Design students enroll DESIGN 5650: Advanced Collaborative Design.  
• Graduate Students may also enroll DESIGN 5650: Advanced Collaborative Design, in consultation with their faculty.

This allows us to make sure each section has a balance of third-year, fourth-year, and graduate students in it.

To achieve the “cross-disciplinary” experience, the section enrollments are controlled to try to balance students from our three undergraduate design disciplines, as well as our graduate students, across the section as well. This means that no more than three students per undergraduate major are allowed to enroll into a single Collaborative Studio section.