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.

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.

Connect with others - and yourself - with intention and play to bring more (choose one: interest, fun, fulfillment, creativity) into your life. This course will feel like a book club and playdates with fieldwork mixed in. Throughout the semester, you will explore how things like technology, time, and the environment influence your connections; reconnect with the power of play (doing something just for the enjoyment of it); and actively experiment with design skills like noticing and experimentation to build your curiosity, confidence, and connection in ways that matter to you.