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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 .

 

  • 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.

Faculty teaching in the DI Hub
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