DEA 1100 Design Generation(s)
Course description
In this three-week session, students will learn how designers think, solve problems, and improve our world. The need for critical thinkers is great and this course will enable students to better understand the world and their role in creating a more humane and sustainable future. The course also introduces design methodologies for creative thinking and practice design skills: sketching, modeling, prototyping, graphics, exhibition design.
Outcome 1: Develop literacy in design visualization and graphic communication.
Outcome 2: Develop skills in a variety of visualization techniques for effective communication.
Outcome 3: Develop skills for critical thinking and quantitative literacy, visual literacy and analysis, capacity to create knowledge.
Outcome 4: Reflection on professional practice.
Summer 2025: Online course
| Section ID: | DEA 1100 501-STU |
| Number: | 1273 |
| Session: | Summer 3-week 3 |
| Class dates: | July 14-August 1, 2025 |
| Mode of instruction: | Online (async+sync) |
| Days / times: | M-F 9:30 AM - 1 PM |
| Final exam/project due: | (see Final exams) |
| Credit: | 3 |
| Grade: | Graded |
| Instructor: | Ahmadi, N. (ne237) |
| Max. enroll: | 20 |
| Notes: | All lectures will be recorded for those who cannot attend in the morning to watch the session and then meet during office hours in the afternoon. |
| To enroll: | See Register and Dates & Deadlines for enrollment information. See Online Learning FAQs. This course is open to all registrants, including undergraduates and precollege students. |
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