Learn design skills
Check out other design-related courses offered by the Academy:
IDEA379A:
Design your purpose
What do you want to do once you graduate? That is the question we tackle in this course. Throughout the semester, you'll use design thinking and lean startup skills and mindsets to explore your personal and professional development goals and explore potential career paths. Using empathy, brainstorming, and prototyping tools, you'll design potential futures for yourself and test them to see if they are a good fit for you.
The courses below are 1-credit STIC courses covering various design topics.
IDEA258C:
Designing Ethical Campaigns
Have you ever wondered how to strategically contribute to a cause you care about and how to convince others to care as well? In this 1-credit Student-Initiated Course, you will be able to apply your knowledge to designing a campaign that can make tangible differences while staying true to your core values. We will explore various scenarios and hold discussions on ethics to help you better understand the different components of running an ethical campaign. Our assignments and activities will allow for you to have hands-on engagement with different target audiences at UMD to create and test your own ethical campaign.
IDEA258D:
Explorations in Design
"Explorations in Design" gives students the opportunity to apply their unique backgrounds to the realm of design. Students will engage in hands-on learning with real world applications to incorporate design thinking into everyday life. By exploring each stage of the design process (from ideating to prototyping), students will develop a final project to pitch at the end of the semester.