Embracing the integral role of design in contemporary culture, students will examine the architecture of design thinking as it applies conceptually to curriculum design, classroom management, and design as advocacy for art education in the larger community. Students will examine how design thinking has evolved overtime and its functions historically, juxtaposed with contemporary culture.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MAE 702 MAE 730
This course introduces students to the selection and specification of appropriate materials, processes and systems for carbon neutral, non-polluting design. Students explore low-energy and renewable materials, closed-loop manufacturing and construction, industrial symbiosis, and perpetual material cycles for circular economies. Students learn about the development and selection of non-harmful materials and processes, localized logistics, design for disassembly, longevity and ethics. The course also covers regulatory factors relating to safety standards, materials recovery and reuse, pollution and emissions.
Credits: 3
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Graduate students in good academic standing have the opportunity to spend a semester (fall or winter) or a full year of study at an accredited institution abroad. Information is available from International Student Services.
Credits: 3
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In this hands-on lab course designed to build skills in advanced data visualization, students will work both individually and in teams to build technical skills in R, one of the leading analytical programs used today. In addition to building customized data visualizations, students will learn methods for data transformation and processing necessary to effectively communicate data through images. The course will emphasize a professional workflow for visualization, integrating data science software with design tools.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: GRD 605
This course introduces the basics of 3D digital rendering and animation techniques as specifically applied to vehicle design. Students will be introduced to Blender as the main animation & rendering software and will also incorporate other digital assets and software for rigging 3D models and video editing.
Credits: 1.5
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The Graduate Studio I, II, III, and IV courses are designed to address projects of increasing complexity and progressively strengthen your problem-solving skills in UX Design. Students will solve a design problem rooted in a creative industries-related context, requiring substantive research and concept development phases, refinement, and execution phases. Research methodologies, design approaches, and techniques students learned in the UX-centered courses will be applied to develop and evaluate their solutions. These courses are structured to simulate the professional studio environment with formally scheduled milestones and defined deliverables and will be reviewed by faculty and industry professionals through formal presentations.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: IXD 601, IXD 602
As contemporary culture expands and intersects on a more global scale, topics in art education require new conceptualizations of what art education is and does. This course affords students the opportunity to deep dive into issues at the forefront of education. Putting design thinking to work through the lenses of the Artist/Researcher/Teacher, students will select contextually relevant and culturally sensitive topics to explore which emphasize positive change within the classroom while simultaneously advocating for the arts as an integral aspect of all educational disciplines.
Credits: 3
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In this course, students will learn techniques for effective listening, persuasion and negotiation in the climate crisis. They will learn to form rational and ethical arguments and debates that advance positive action informed by verifiable data. The climate crisis is culturally and politically complex, and often polarized. Communication narratives require rational, measured and skillful delivery. In this course, with reference to the work of others, students will learn how to create accurate and well-judged communication, PR, and persuasion strategies in the climate crisis, using text and audio-visual formats through a range of media channels (social and commercial).
Credits: 3
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The Written Thesis is a self-directed, academically rigorous and fully referenced 8 000-10 000 word document providing a critical appraisal of primary and secondary research sources, and theoretical discussion and debate on the over-arching context of the Final Project. It runs concurrently with the Final Project 1 course in semester 1.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DGR 613 DGR 620
In large organizations or companies, the ongoing tracking of trends and occurrences of their internal and external environment is the element that could bring success, currently and in the future. The art of tracking trends and occurrences is called Environmental Scanning. It is about being informed and building a global context for your work, your organization, your competitive environment, and your industry. This class will provide students with the tools to examine trends and changes, and to create the key environmental indicators-internal, external, qualitative, and quantitative that will have the most important potential impact on their work.
Credits: 3
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