May 29, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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COAD 430* - Design Thinking and Innovation

3 Credit Hours
Introduction to design thinking and innovation for junior and senior 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: (AOC) (EI) 
Contact Hour Distribution: 1 hour seminar, 2 hours lab.
Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both COAD 430 and COAD 130* .
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – junior.



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