Faculty: You can include your course schedule here by starting with this template, or changing it as needed.
Week 1
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Orientation and course description: objectives, requirements, recommended texts, reading/homework expectations, grading. The Role of the Contemporary Designer.
- 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.
- Homework: Research topics in civic and community engagement to spark an initial concept.
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 2
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Break down research techniques and introduce this idea of human-centered design. How to present your research findings.
- Activities: Review initial student ideas in mini-groups sessions, evaluate direction, and provide feedback for topic clarification.
- Homework: After feedback find a clearer understanding of the topic to prepare to share findings with the class.
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 4
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: How do you uncover specific creative solutions? What are persona(s) and how to use them in your research?
- Activities: Students present their initial findings to the class. (continued)
- Homework:
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 4
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: How do you uncover specific creative solutions? What are persona(s) and how to use them in your research?
- Activities: Students present their initial findings to the class. (continued)
- Homework:
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 5
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Discuss competitive sets and opportunities for this creative solution.
- Activities: Students present their secondary findings in the class and share how the research is informing their concept.
- Homework: Prepare a creative brief for the next class. State your creative challenge, strategy, concept, audience, and way to address the issue. (ideas are still in rough form)
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 6
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: What is the creative brief and how is it used to establish the framework for your research summary pitch
- Activities: Begin Research for Senior Project. Explore ideas and discover opportunities.
- Homework: Midterm research summary presentation.
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 7
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Midterm research summary presentation.
- Activities: All students present an 8 minute summary of their research and what thy plan to do to there project.
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 8-9
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Show techniques to break out the norms of conceiving of a creative direction.
- Activities: Students use groupthink methods to discuss, review, and provide feedback for each other.
- Homework: Continue to explore via research and show progress.
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 10
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Use to discuss finalize output and techniques. Review project process books.
- Activities: Students present mockup ideas for creative solutions with an understanding of the message, intention, connection, and media outlet diversity.
- Also, submit the first draft of their senior project proposal paper
- Homework: Continue to explore via research and show progress.
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 11-13
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Use to discuss finalize output and techniques. Review project process books.
- Activities: Students use this as production time to finalize and check-in to get final feedback.
- Homework: Continue to explore via research and show progress.
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
Week 13
Day & Date
- Activities: Submit research paper for thier senior project ideas. Include a process book and all accompanying research.
Week 14-15
Day & Date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
- Topic: Final presentation of creative work to class and other faculty.
- Activities: All work needs to be presentation ready to communicate clearly and convincingly your concept and support solution. Include a process book and all accompanying research.
- Due Dates: Add due dates, as relevant
