Courses

Design Innovation courses provide students with opportunities to explore creativity, collaboration, and real-world problem-solving through hands-on, interdisciplinary learning experiences. 

These courses connect students with design innovation methods, emerging technologies, and project-based challenges that prepare them to work across disciplines and adapt to complex problems.

  • Design Thinking to Design Innovation Courses: Opens ways to imagine and create and think critically.
  • Design Innovation Studio(s) + Electives: The history and techniques of Design Innovation.
  • Grand Challenge Project Studios: Interdisciplinary teams of students and faculty take on complex challenges both small and large.

To view our current list of approved Design Innovation Courses, view them in the University Course Catalog.

 

  • Bring Your Course to DI

    Bring Your Course to DI

    Are you interested in enhancing your course with human-centered design, design thinking, and hands-on making? Then consider bringing your course to DI!

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  • Collaborative Teaching Proposals

    Collaborative Teaching Proposals

    Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) is a project and problem-based learning course, where student teams collaborate with faculty, community and industry partners to innovate novel solutions to real-world problems.

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Previous Course Offerings

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    Intergenerational Long-term Care Mobility Project

    In collaboration with the Long-term Care Administration program, this semester-long project connects students to work with elders and eldercare facilities to rethink strategies around the question: "How can we improve the lives of residents and staff in long-term care by addressing mobility concerns?"

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    Children's Lit in Augmented Reality

    In this course, student teams will learn how to develop AR experiences connected to children's storytelling with a focus on social justice and inclusivity.

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    Warren, OH Revitalizing Communities Project

    Student teams will create strategies on how we might propose some community-partnered challenges to support Warren, OH in addressing some big problems: "How might we help to stimulate and revitalize communities in the city in an inclusive, equitable and visionary manner?"

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    Hands of Gratitude: Service Learning in the Dominican Republic

    Embark on a transformative journey where compassion meets innovation as we design and deliver 3D-printed prosthetic hands, forge meaningful connections with local communities in the Dominican Republic, and explore the rich cultural tapestry and natural wonders of this captivating country. Dare to make a difference and become a catalyst for positive change as you experience the power of service, human-centered design, and social entrepreneurship.

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