Fall 2024

One-week campus residential. Introduction to program themes, content, concepts, theories and processes. Opportunity to build skills and meet cohort, with an emphasis on team building.

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.

Introduction to branding; brand design and development of a brand identity; brand attributes; visual aspects; social and ethical implications; curation of brand identity.

Initial design and development of consumer products; from ideation through visualization, market research, and prototyping to ready-to-market solutions; 3D modeling and 3D printing.

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.

Provides context for creating augmented and virtual reality by examining the technologies that enable them and the perspectives for new applications in virtual and physical spaces.

Overview of modern XR programming practices; 3D UX, physics forces, animations, behaviors, visual effects and spatial audio; advancements in XR hardware and software APIs.

Discipline-specific, cross-disciplinary and shared approaches to products, services, projects, systems, organizational development. Topics include creative and user-focused perspectives, feasibility analytics, lean startup techniques.

Concepts and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning; topics include agents, knowledge representation, classification systems, training models, decision trees, decision trees and ensemble learning

Building modern AI applications with a focus on societal impact; fostering critical thinking in AI development; emphasizing ethical considerations in AI integration.

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

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.

Analysis of the current fashion system exploring strategic interventions within existing models to imagine future systemic change; examines the role of seasonal structures.

Faculty-mentored, applied project with individual and team components. Implement a prototype solution to a problem. Deploy relevant tools, methods and processes learned throughout the program.

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.