Fall 2025

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.

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.

Front-end (user-facing) development of interactive web pages; tools, techniques and practice.

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.

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

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.

The life cycle of a new venture from idea to construction of an enterprise to a decision about financial viability. Recommended preparation: IDSN 525 Business Essentials.

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

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.