ADES 5515 - Using Critical Methods to Guide Critical Writing in Design

3 hours

Introduces the five methodologies for engaging in intellectually rigorous, eclectically informed approaches to thinking and writing critically about how and why particular designed artifacts, systems, experiences, and processes create change among select populations. Class discussions, as well as historical and analytical research, inform specific writing assignments. Includes knowledge and skills acquisition to better understand and proactively affect how design thinking catalyzes social, environmental, economic, political, and technological change. Students choose to analyze and evaluate topics under the broadcast definitions of design and designing. Students formulate and explore eclectically guided arguments about how and why design is manufactured and disseminated for humans and meets human needs and desires.

Prerequisite(s): None.