Faculty: This example post demonstrates how you can provide information about each class for your students. It uses the category “Classes” and can be found under Activities > Classes in the site menu. Use the suggested outline below to structure your class posts.

Class Info

  • Date: Week 01
  • Meeting Info: Login into Blackboard for Weekly LIVE class sessions.

To-Do Before Class

In one sentence, describe one of these things:

  • What is wrong with the world/society? your City? you Community? your School?

Topic

  • Orientation and course description: objectives, requirements, recommended texts, reading/homework expectations, grading.
  • What is the Role of the Contemporary Designer in todays landscape.
  • How does this course prep you for the Senior Project course?

Objectives

  • Understand the role of the designer as a concept generator.
  • Build and expand your design research capabilities.
  • Explore ways to include more or yourself and community into your creative work.
  • Understanding the role of design research.
  • Build better design techniques and practices.
  • Explore tools/ways to exercise your creativity.

Lecture

PLACE copy of you lecture here.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yS3lHiv1Ydww-njKOSYZ3xWNJjjyZkks-4lCy42lrQ0/edit?usp=sharing

Activities

Students will be tasked with searching for a topic to spark their own research and begin to discover issues and problems within their local communities.

  • What is Civic and Community Engagement
  • Design Sprints
    • Defining a problem
    • 5 Whys
    • Root causes
    • Share and Compare

To-Do After Class

Work with team to figure out How Might We statements to bring to class.

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