Design Thinking Minor

The Department of Design offers five courses that directly tackle the field of Design Thinking (each can be taken individually or together as the Design Thinking Minor). The aim of these courses is introduce students to new and creative ways to solve problems.

Students will build a solid understanding of basic principles, processes and applications of Design as related to a wide spectrum of disciplines. The focus on the student’s critical thinking development, to efficiently and effectively addressing the complexity that often surrounds unmet or unrealized needs of people. Each course invites students to discover the design thinking methodology—providing them with the tools and opportunities to practice, using their own voice to identify and quantify meaningful problems, offering their understanding towards establishing goals and developing their perspective towards different sets of solutions.

No permissions or approvals are required to enroll in any of these courses or to pursue the Design Thinking Minor. Courses can be taken in any order. 

Students pursuing the minor should alert their college or school academic advisors of their intent, so that the correct plan can be assigned to their records and tracked in the degree Degree Auditing Report (DAR) system. The minor consists of 15-credit hours from the department’s offerings. 9-credit hours are in courses above 3000-level.