HCD-497

Students in this course, with faculty and mentors, will interpret and integrate what they learned in the Deepening Courses and the Collaborative Practical Experience, consider professional issues in design, conduct an independent design project, and develop a design portfolio. Students will connect their curricular and co-curricular experience, exploring empathy, ethics, collaboration, reciprocity, and organizational culture in communities and organizations where human-centered design is practiced. Students will be evaluated based on presentations, project process elements, and reflective writing, including the final portfolio. Prerequisites: Human-Centered Design 101, completion of the Collaborative Practical Experience, and consent of instructor. Distribution area: None.