DEA 6100

Studies in Design Thinking

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

DEA 6100 is a graduate design theory course. The primary objective is to introduce topical issues of design in the built environment, with a focus on enclosure. Different theoretical themes will be introduced and explored each week through critical readings, discussions, and creative synthesis.

When Offered Spring.

• Acquire grounding in the field of design theory as it pertains to the built environment and be able to apply it to contemporary design issues.
• Develop a greater proficiency in critical thinking through rhetorical and historiographical analyses of the readings.
• Incorporate a greater breadth of disciplinary perspectives as the world of ideas, philosophy, is compared to the world of interventions, design.

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