The interdisciplinary approach is one central objective, improving students’ abilities to design visuals that will enhance societal well-being. This class comprises of students from different disciplines and they may not be design students. The class will work with a real-world client to identify a project that addresses a social need, engages people, and inspires positive change. Students will be expected to conduct design research, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of research in establishing and addressing the social need.
The students with completion of the course, Freshman Year Seminar will be able to:
Firstly, identify change models for successful community involvement that consider ethics, relationship building, exchanges of ideas & values, collective leadership, facilitation techniques, and ethnographic research methods. Identify important movements, people, and organizations that have initiated social innovation in the areas of social justice, education, conservation, health, community revitalization, food sustainability, equal rights, fair trade, and the other areas of exercises in problem definition, audience identification, and research techniques.
Secondly, this course aims to improve the quality of your judgments and decisions. It will help them use all art mediums from hands-on pencil sketches, 2D, 3D, clay, and digital application (Film, video, adobe software and UI, and UX). Students can create using any of these techniques.
Thirdly, this course aims to increase your familiarity with all creative practices and broaden and widely apply it with different disciplines. It enhances and encourages vast knowledge to bridge the gap between other disciplines and prepares students for its intervention, approach, and application as they move in their path.
