CDES 4251 - Designing the Human Experience

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): CDES 2222 and ART 1505 or ART 3301 or ARTH 2600 or ARTH 3690 or ARTH 4480 or CDES 3602 or CDES 3625 or IND 3000; or permission of department

Description: Students in this course learn that good design can serve to enrich the human experience. Students explore a spectrum of life experiences and/or personal events, which may include habit, memory, disaster, and imagination, as inspiration to create and implement positive design solutions. Students produce a series of intensive, multi layered projects with emphasis on tracking, recording, and journaling the human experience. Students build upon their knowledge of design discourse in the discipline through a mix of readings, writings, and development of rich, meaningful design projects. Design projects are presented in a variety of media. This is an integrated media course.