Spring 2024

Overview of the intellectual properties and a basic vocabulary for understanding of copyright, trademark, and patents for creatives and entrepreneurs.

Selected topics in design, business and technology.

One-week off-campus residential. Applied, intensive workshop format focused on solutions for real-world problems with input from industry experts.

Overview of design language, process and product. Build fluency in applying core visual principles and design-based problem-solving techniques. Explore historical and contemporary design issues.

Design processes for products, services, systems and policies that lead to effective solutions for diverse audiences.

Overview of general business and management concepts and techniques that builds theoretical and analytical fluency and identifies and examines leadership and managerial challenges.

A focus on ideal marketing strategies for early-stage startups seeking to build communities of early adopters and beta testers for products, services, and systems.

Overview of core information technology concepts, methods, and frameworks. Develop aptitude in using tools, applications and systems; learn basic programming languages and methodologies.

The intersection of fashion and extended reality in digital fashion design, retail and showcasing experiences and production of sharable and co-creative art.

Faculty-mentored project. Demonstrate individual and simultaneous skills and competency across fields and within cross-functional, cross-disciplinary teams.

Practicum through which student teams serve as design strategists for industry collaborators, and learn advanced methods and processes to solve problems in collaborative, field-specific environments.

Discipline-specific, cross-disciplinary and shared approaches to recognizing/analyzing opportunities, identifying/framing problems and developing/iterating solutions. Techniques gleaned from entrepreneurship, creative practices, critical thinking methods, ethnography, systems theory.

Discipline-specific, cross-disciplinary and shared approaches to exploring visual, written and spoken storytelling using digital modalities. Topics include communication theory, narrative structures and content creation.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units, which may be applied to the degree, to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Selected topics in design, business and technology.