Covers strategies for presenting textile and fashion design work, including curatorial methods, portfolio development, artist statements, and critique of communication strategies.
Environments of Crisis & Design explores built environments supporting people in disasters, conflicts, and forced migration through a human-centered, trauma-informed design lens.
Hands-on introduction to civic design focusing on service design, systems-thinking, and participatory methods in public sector contexts, including team-based prototyping with government or nonprofit partners.
Explores lighting, acoustics, and thermal comfort in buildings through lectures, field measurements, and simulations to support sustainable design and occupant well-being.
Interior Design IV covers the design of commercial interiors with emphasis on acoustics, codes, costs, specifications, details, and visual presentation. A field trip is required.
Interior Architecture Professional Practice prepares majors for design careers by covering office operations, project delivery, and post-graduation material preparation.
Interior Design V explores and refines interior design skills by following the design process from research to presentation, addressing space planning, detailing, and client presentation.
Digital Weaving covers developing industrial and hand-woven digital jacquard designs using multiple software platforms, translating digital imagery into weave drafts, and integrating creative practice with technical analysis.
The Collaborative Design Capstone culminates design education via real-world challenges, emphasizing multidisciplinary teamwork, portfolio development, and the full design cycle from research to implementation.
Research Methods in Design teaches future designers to master quantitative and qualitative research methods, including literature review, data analysis, and human-centered inquiry for design practice.
Human-Centered Design and Business teaches design thinking's iterative process—empathy, systems thinking, ideation, prototyping, and testing—plus balancing desirability, feasibility, and viability to bring projects to market.
Covers dairy cattle evaluation and selection, including linear type appraisal, judging, mating programs, breed comparisons, marketing, and national genetic improvement programs.
Independent Study: Individual introductory to intermediate work under direct faculty guidance in Dairy Science. Students arrange work and credits with the instructor.
DAIRY CHALLENGE analyzes dairy farm management systems and applies industry benchmarks. Students work in teams on a commercial dairy farm case study and SWOT analysis to make informed recommendations.
Assesses food production systems through biology, agriculture, and social science lenses, focusing on sustainability, climate change, and global social structures.
A practicum in Dairy Science Teaching providing instructional orientation, direct teaching experience under supervision, student evaluation, and teaching performance analysis in agricultural and life sciences.
A seminar course involving comprehensive reviews of research to broaden understanding of dairy science, including analyzing and critiquing scientific presentations.
Cooperative Education Program providing full-time workplace experience where students apply engineering theory and practical knowledge in a professional setting.
Exams were described as fairly straightforward if students completed the review assignment and period exercises. Preparing adequately for class was considered sufficient for success.