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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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BUS 250 - Design Thinking Credits: 5 LEC hours per week: 5 As everyday systems become more interdisciplinary, the challenges facing us require more creative and nuanced approaches to problem solving. Design Thinking provides students a framework for: solving complex problems, innovation and creativity, and inclusivity in the design process. This course is built for those who will work in interdisciplinary contexts or simply desire to be more innovative. Course Outcomes:
- Apply creativity to current endeavors.
- Improve quantity and quality of generated ideas.
- Use creativity templates.
- Develop problem-definition through analysis and systematic use of rubrics.
- Practice articulating linear systems to circular systems.
- Identify system elements, relationships, influencers, and entry-points where change is most likely to be positive and effective.
- Mitigate unintended consequences of proposed interventions, short- and long-term, across stakeholders.
- Evaluate solutions for creativity, and practicality, using sustainability assessment protocols.
- Defend creative solutions.
Course Topics:
- The difference between creative- and critical-thinking
- How the brain works
- Risk-taking
- Idea-generation methods
- Proper problem-definition
- The role of knowledge and integrative learning in creativity
- Incentivizing to produce change
- Recognizing that every solution is a potential problem
- Thinking bigger than the given problem: upstream problem-solving
- The 2-minute elevator speech
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