Spring 2027

Advanced Design Thinking for Transformation

Advanced Design Thinking for Transformation uses an empathetic, human-centered perspective to solve complex problems like student mental health and clean water access via design thinking.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.91 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate the ability to develop and understand empathy through the practice of observation, interviewing skills and other methods.

  • Recognize how knowledge, concepts, and theories outside of the field of design are relevant to informing new approaches to design solutions.

  • Examine a wide range of problems confronting society and identify interdependencies between context practice and methods.

  • Exhibit the ability to be creative, collaborative and divergent thinkers who can generate and visually communicate multiple ideas.

  • Apply the iterative design thinking process to develop innovative solutions for challenging real world problems.

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DS 641

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.91 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Empathetic, human-centered design thinking.
  • Complex social issues including student mental health and clean drinking water.
  • Real-world constraints and technology limitations.
  • Interdependencies between context, practice, and methods in societal problems.

Skills

  • Developing and understanding empathy through observation and interviewing.
  • Creative analysis and problem solving using advanced design thinking techniques.
  • Generating and visually communicating multiple ideas as a creative, collaborative, and divergent thinker.
  • Applying the iterative design thinking process to develop innovative solutions.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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