| Course ID: | ENTR 7090E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Critical Design Thinking |
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Description: | Creativity/innovation are needed for leading industries and companies. Critical thinking is a way of deciding whether a claim is true or false. Design thinking uses a set of methods to develop ideas/solutions to challenges in any discipline or profession. This course will focus on developing students’ critical/design thinking processes. |
| Oasis Title: | Critical Design Thinking |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in ENTR 7090 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The premises of this course are that:
• Individuals need to develop skills for analyzing problems and opportunities using critical thinking skills and techniques.
• All people are naturally creative.
• Everyone’s creative abilities can be improved through learning and practicing design thinking skills and techniques.
The course is intended for students who want to enhance their critical analysis skills and their innovation and design thinking skills and capacities.
The course is designed to help students:
• Develop a discipline for analyzing situations
• Stimulate creative thinking
• Incorporate design thinking into their everyday personal and professional activities
• Apply critical and design thinking to real-world situations
• Learn to participate and lead innovation in collaborative settings |
| Topical Outline: | The following topics are covered in this course:
• The need for critical design thinking, basing ideas on critical thought
• Critical thinking fundamentals
• Innovation through design thinking
• Change through critical design thinking
• The power of design
• Creative thinking and methods
• Concept visualization and prototyping
• Story-telling and narrative as design thinking in innovation |