The Center for Integrated Design (CID) is offering a full list of 5-week and full semester courses open to all majors.
See the complete Spring 2021 Undergraduate course list and our graduate-level Design Thinking course.
Please note: All ITD courses will be taught online. No student will be required to be on-campus for classes during the Spring 2021 semester. Now the good stuff.
Studio Course
ITD 170 McKinsey Design Studio
Faculty: Collin Cole (McKinsey Austin founder) & Jared Culp
Unique Number: 22075
APPLICATION REQUIRED. To apply, send a letter of interest (include EID) and a resume to cid@austin.utexas.edu. Rolling admissions. This course explores the intersection of design, business, data, and digital marketing. Examines methods for creating differentiated products and services by combining design thinking and data science while working in interdisciplinary teams. Previous ITD course experience required.
New Courses
New! ITD 330T Perspectives in Design
Faculty: Gray Garmon & Kate Canales
Unique Number: 22035
Multiple designers will lead short-term projects that expose students to unique perspectives about design in our current society. Think Pathways to Design with projects.
New! ITD 150 Design in Deviant US Culture
Faculty: Jared Culp
Unique Number: 22045
First studio in a series of probing exercises examining the effects of latent memories that have given shape to American culture. The course is an examination into the traditions of the Tent Revival. The course seeks to unearth the subconscious experiences that have shaped this “deviant” religious tradition and to understand how traditions have influenced the contemporary black experience. Participants will examine based on economy, aesthetics, urbanism, and ideology. The challenge of the course will be to create a service blueprint for a contemporary user that exposes these latent memories.
New! ITD 150 Design from Global to Local
Faculty: Jared Culp & Michael Henderson
Unique Number: 22050
In Lagos, Nigeria and Kibera, Kenya business traditions rely on the malleability of its people to adapt and transform with the evolution of the city. People, processes and tools have been created to think beyond the constrictive limitations that we have come to rely on in western cities. The course explores west and east African business practices as inspiration for a rapidly changing global ecosystem. In the wake of social and political unrest we examine these practices in order to inform research and find solutions for businesses at the local level. Students working in groups will be assigned 1 of 5 minority owned businesses that have struggled to maintain or grow in today’s unpredictable climate. Students will do qualitative investigative research and come up with a future strategy to present to the business. The challenge will be for students to craft a solution that helps the western world in some ways catch up to developing countries.
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ITD 110 How to Design Your Life
Faculty: Julianna Murphy
Unique Number: 22025
For many students, the questions “What’s your major?” or “What do you want to do after college?” can be paralyzing. Parental and societal pressures, combined with the limitless possibilities for majors, minors, and extracurriculars often leave students feeling lost or stuck. This course is a collaborative, project-based course that leverages Design Thinking to help students successfully navigate a rapidly changing world and set a sustainable course for their life at UT and beyond. The instructor will be certified by the Designing Your Life program at Standford’s d.school.
ITD 350 How To See Like a Designer
Faculty: Jon Freach
Unique Number: 22070
What can you see through the lens of a camera that you can’t see with the naked eye. In this class, you will combines interviews with photography to generate data for storytelling purposes analyzes photography and infers meaning from it..
Returning Favorites
5-Week Courses
- ITD 101 Intro To Integrated Design (22005)
- ITD 102 Sketching for Thinking and Communication (22020)
- ITD 111 Intro To Design for Artificial Intelligence (22030)
- ITD 150 Digital Prototyping (22055)
- ITD 150 Intro To Design Futures (22060)
Full Semester Courses
- ITD 350 Business Of Entertainment (22065)
- ITD 301D Intro To Design Thinking (22010 & 22015)
- ITD 380 Design Thinking – graduate (22085)
