VCA 212 Design Thinking for Academic and Entrepreneurial Minds
Creative problem solving has increasingly become recognized as one of the most important skills in both academia and the professional world. Researchers, employees, entrepreneurs, and leaders are all required to generate innovative ideas and to design structured processes to implement them. This course will equip you with design thinking tools, including research, ideation, prototyping, and iteration, and will guide you how to apply them to draft and realize products and solutions. It will help you to envision your academic and career paths and will support you in your development of durable skills, including curiosity and experimentation, empathy and patience, cooperation and teamwork, proactivity and perseverance.