CID Undergraduate Courses

Faculty: Gray Garmon
Unique Number: 21210

Introduction to the concept of design thinking as a core fundamental in education and industry across all disciplines and channels. Guest speakers may facilitate discussion of various innovation issues facing businesses today.

Faculty: Joe Meersman
Unique Number: 21225

Sketching is the fastest way to convey ideas, whether in an ideation session or just taking notes in a meeting. Designed to help students learn the basic elements of sketching to visualize concepts and quickly bring alignment to any team.

Faculty: Jai Dandekar
Unique Number: 21230

Development of a portfolio of work to present for feedback. Designed to help students understand what is expected to create a personal portfolio to show potential employers.

Faculty: Julianna Murphy
Unique Number: 21232

Open to all UT students, this is a hands-on project-based course that will use the skills and mindsets of Design Thinking to empower students to reflect, ideate, and prototype their own undergraduate experience here at UT. The classwork teaches methods of problem definition, design research, and solution generation that will enable students to successfully navigate and take ownership of their learning.

Faculty: Alex Swain
Unique Number: 21234

Artificial intelligence is considered to be the next industrial revolution. How can we, as designers, apply these AI technologies to create new compelling experiences and opportunities that help inspire, automate, or impact our everyday lives? This course will provide insight into the history, types, technologies, and examples of how AI is being applied today and how we can leverage user-centered design to conceive new possibilities.

Faculty: Cam Houser
Unique Number: 21233

Exploration of the integration of entrepreneurship in industry and introduction to the creative process of starting new ventures.

Faculty: Jake Dunagan
Unique Number: 21239

Introduction to Design Futures will take students through a structured process to deepen their understanding of change, and to communicate alternative futures in a coherent and compelling way. Students will use theories and methods from experiential futures to create original artifacts from the future and to facilitate a conversation to draw out insights. 

Faculty: Luanne Stovall
Unique Number: 21243

Gain 21st century color competencies for visual literacy through the lenses of science, technology, psychology, design and popular culture. Exploration of color using thought experiments, creative research projects, collaborative teamwork exercises, and hands-on experiments. 

Faculty: Tyler Coleman
Unique Number: 21236

An introduction to design methods for video games as a service and persistent multiplayer video game worlds. Crosslisted with AET 339.

Faculty: Kate Canales
Unique Number: 21238

In this “need finding” class, students will use design methods to unearth and articulate design opportunities in scenarios where they are latent, hidden or otherwise not obvious. This class is project-based, fast-paced and joyful with high expectations for effort and production outside of class.

Faculty: Shawna Murland
Unique Number: 21237

Storytelling is one of the world’s most accessible and powerful tools for achieving astonishing results. Stories humanize data, build empathetic connections, define great leaders, and inspire others. During this 5-week course, we will examine the influential role of storytelling in the user-centered design process and explore the principles that drive influential stories. 

Faculty: Scott Witthoff/Jared Huke/Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness
Unique Numbers: 21215/21220/21224

What is design thinking? In this course, students learn the principles of design thinking and apply them to real-world problems while working in interdisciplinary teams. Students learn how to frame problems, learn about people and their behaviors, then apply those insights to improve products and services through rapid prototyping and iteration. 

Faculty: Natasha Davidson
Unique Number: 21244

This course will explore the fundamentals of producing entertainment from inspiration to execution. We will explore all aspects involved in producing live stage and on screen commercial productions.

Faculty: Jon Freach

This course will begin by introducing students to the fundamentals of the camera and design research photography. During the following weeks, students will learn observation methods and techniques that build upon each other. You will learn how to make inferences when analyzing photographs, understand the meaning and use of place, analyze situations using a coding structure, and more.

Faculty: Sam Lavigne

This course explores the many esoteric possibilities of online expression, approaching the internet through the lens of experimentation, design and performance. Each week students will be tasked with exploring one of the many micro-genres that exist online, including chat rooms, live streams, bots, social media profiles and more. Crosslisted with DES 330T.

Faculty: Gray Garmon and Brooks Protzmann
Unique Number: 21255

Multidisciplinary groups of students research an integrated design problem and propose and prototype an appropriate solution, guided by feedback from supervising instructor(s). Restricted to students in the bridging discipline program.