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Courses - Spring 2026
IDEA
Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
IDEA201
Innovation Tools & Mindsets
Credits: 1
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: IDEA201 or IDEA258A.
Formerly: IDEA258A.
Challenges assumptions around what is needed to innovate and who innovators are. Through hands-on activities and reflection, you'll be invited to step out of your comfort zone, think and work in new ways, and gain confidence in your creative abilities.
IDEA311
Design Your Purpose
Credits: 1
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: IDEA311 or IDEA379A.
Formerly: IDEA379A.
What do you want to do once you graduate? What about with your life? These are the big questions we begin to tackle in this course. Use design methods and mindsets to explore your personal and professional development goals and explore potential career paths. Using empathy, brainstorming, and prototyping techniques, you'll imagine potential futures for yourself and test them to see if they are a good fit for you.
IDEA459
The Innovation Studio: Experience Design in Performance Contexts
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with IDEA459. Credit only granted for IDEA459 or IDEA659.

When you think of classical music, do you picture ball gowns, men in powdered wigs, and music to fall asleep to? For many, these common misconceptions create barriers to encountering live classical music. The Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship partners with the National Orchestral Institute + Festival to challenge long-standing assumptions and explore the potential for belonging, experimentation, and awe that live classical music offers. This interdisciplinary design studio serves as a collaborative, experiential space to explore and develop ideas for future NOI+F festivals. We'll cover tenets of Experience Design like Phase 0, relational empathy, immersion, world building, and diagramming, and draw on practices such as Futuring, Improv, and Human-Centered Design to create innovative, audience-centered experiments. Whatever your experience level with classical music, design, or powdered wigs, you'll deepen your creative intuition and uncover new ways of working and thinking.
IDEA498
(Perm Req)
Independent Study: Experiments in Innovation
Credits: 1 - 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
IDEA659
The Innovation Studio: Experience Design in Performance Contexts
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
Cross-listed with IDEA459. Credit only granted for IDEA459 or IDEA659.

When you think of classical music, do you picture ball gowns, men in powdered wigs, and music to fall asleep to? For many, these common misconceptions create barriers to encountering live classical music. The Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship partners with the National Orchestral Institute + Festival to challenge long-standing assumptions and explore the potential for belonging, experimentation, and awe that live classical music offers. This interdisciplinary design studio serves as a collaborative, experiential space to explore and develop ideas for future NOI+F festivals. We'll cover tenets of Experience Design like Phase 0, relational empathy, immersion, world building, and diagramming, and draw on practices such as Futuring, Improv, and Human-Centered Design to create innovative, audience-centered experiments. Whatever your experience level with classical music, design, or powdered wigs, you'll deepen your creative intuition and uncover new ways of working and thinking.
IDEA698
(Perm Req)
Independent Study in Design Thinking
Credits: 1 - 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
Graduate students apply design thinking and/or lean startup concepts to a real-world project. This course requires a high degree of self-direction in all aspects of the project including defining specificmilestones and deliverables. There will be regular coaching froman Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship team member.

Restriction:Permission required by the Academy for Innovation and Entreurship