May 30, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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COAD 130* - Basic Design Thinking and Innovation

3 Credit Hours
Introduction to design thinking and innovation for first year and second year undergraduate students from all majors. This course will assist students in how to work in multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex whole-to-part real-world problems. Students engage collaborative design thinking methods that emphasize producing unique, feasible, and implementable outcomes that can be applied in future classes and within career opportunities. Students will complete projects by generating a variety of ideas, applying and synthesizing knowledge from their discipline, building prototypes, and evaluating with critical thinking.

Satisfies Volunteer Core Requirement: (EI) (OC)
Satisfies General Education Requirement through the 2021-2022 academic catalog: (OC)
Contact Hour Distribution: 1 hour seminar, 2 hours lab.
Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both COAD 130 and COAD 430* 



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