- DES 380. Core Course in Design: Introduction to design process, research, and methodologies.
- DES 381. Core Laboratory 1: Practice laboratory for a variety of design methodologies.
- DES 682. Critique Studio: Context and structured dialogue regarding areas of, and the student’s own direction in, graduate research.
- DES 383. Graduate Projects: Independent study.
- DES 386. Design History.
- DES 387. Graduate Internship in Design: Professional design internship in a field of the student’s interest.
- DES 387H. Internship in Healthcare Design.
- DES 391. Core Laboratory 2: Designed to provide students with the opportunity to test and expand their design research through writing and various methods of dissemination.
- DES 392. Professional Communication of Research: Seminar addressing strategies for communicating design research processes and results to a variety of audiences through vehicles such as exhibitions, scholarly reports, and video recordings.
- DES 393. Issues in Design Theory and Research: Investigates current discourse within design studies. DES 394. Advanced Issues in Design: Examination of design practice in all areas, and its relationship to research.
- DES 395. Fieldwork in Design: Students conduct fieldwork as part of a collaborative research team and/or under the direction of a project supervisor.
- DES 398R. Master’s Report: The culminating documentation of student’s design research.
- DES 398S. Master’s Exhibition: The public presentation of design research.
- DES 398T. Supervised Teaching in Design: Training and teaching under the close supervision of the course instructor for one semester; group meetings with the instructor, individual consultations, and reports throughout the teaching period.