| DDN 685 | Master's Supervised Teaching | UNITS: 1-3 - No Course Evaluation |
| Prerequisite: Master's Student |
| Teaching experience under the mentorship of faculty who assist the student in planning for the teaching assignment, observe and provide feedback to the student during the teaching assignment, and evaluate the student upon completion of the assignment. |
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| DDN 696 | Summer Thesis Res | UNITS: 1 |
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| DDN 701 | Research Methods in Design | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Survey of research methods in the field of design including overall systems of inquiry, criteria for assessing quality, strategies and tactics. Strengths and weaknesses of various research designs. Experimental and quasi-experimental research, correlational research, qualitative research strategies, simulation and modeling research, action research and design intervention, case study, and combined strategies. |
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| DDN 702 | Research Paradigms in Design | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Overview of contributions and limitations of various theoretical perspectives that inform the field of design inquiry. Knowledge and theory construction. Nature, scope, and merits of scientific approach. Criticism of the scientific approach and examination of alternative approaches utilized in design research and practice. Linking philosophy, research, and action/practice/application. |
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| DDN 770 | Research in Information Design | UNITS: 6 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student, Design Majors, Corequisite: DDN 771,772 or 773 |
| Research problems in information design with a focus on the cognitive, cultural, or technological implications of visual communication or product design. Students design research studies in response to questions arising from co-requisite study in Information Design seminars. |
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| DDN 771 | Design as Cognitive Artifact | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student, Design Majors, Corequisite: DDN 830 or 831 |
| Relationship between theories of human cognition and design. Analysis and critique of design objects as cognitive artifacts and extension, transformation, or diminishing of human thought by their form and content. A critical examination of cognitive, linguistic and social science theories shaping design. |
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| DDN 772 | Design as Cultural Artifact | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student, Design Majors, Corequisite: DDN 830 or 831 |
| Recent theories in various disciplines concerning a cultural understanding of graphic design. Theories of mass and popular culture, critiques of creativity and authorial intentionality, influences of interpretive criticism, theories of consumption and issues of cultural representation. Emphasis on adaptation of these theories to an understanding of the cultural significance of graphic design. Non-majors by permission only. |
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| DDN 773 | New Information Environments | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student, Design Majors, Corequisite: DDN 830 or 831 |
| Changing role of design in new information environments. Implications of new technology on social construction of meaning, impact of electronic media on culture and cognition, and differences in designing artifacts and designing interactions. |
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| DDN 776 | Community Design | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Processes through which citizens shape and manage built environment. Strategic planning, visioning process, community action, and mediation will be discussed and illustrated with case study examples from architecture, landscape architecture and planning. Analysis and assessment from case studies of participation techniques such as charrette, study circles and visual appraisal. |
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| DDN 777 | Sustainable Communities | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing, Doctoral student |
| Historical precedents of sustainable communities. Examination of the Garden City, the New Towns Movement, and the New Urbanism. Comparison of sustainable communities to urban visions of Wright, Corbusier, Soleri and others. Virtual cities and digital communities. |
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| DDN 778 | Ecological Design | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| An integrative approach to human and natural systems. Ecological scale, function, spatial structure and human-ecosystem interaction through case studies at a variety of scales. Ecological concepts linked to design and planning principles. |
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| DDN 779 | Human Use of the Urban Landscape | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Techniques for documenting and analyzing user needs at cite planning scale. Methods of integrating user needs into design programming in design and redesign projects. Community participation methods. Examples of best practice in design of user-intensive settings in residential, health, education and recreation. Principles of Universal Design. Fieldwork-oriented. |
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| DDN 795 | Special Topics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
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| DDN 809 | Dissertation Colloquium | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
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| DDN 810 | Special Topics | UNITS: 1-3 |
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| DDN 830 | Information Design | UNITS: 6 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Corequisite: DDN 771, 772, or 773 |
| Directed study in information design with a focus on the cognitive, cultural or technological implications of visual communication design. Students design visual research studies in response to questions arising from co-requisite study in Information Design seminars. |
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| DDN 831 | Information Design | UNITS: 6 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Corequisite: DDN 771, 772, or 773 |
| Directed study in information design with a focus on the cognitive, cultural or technological implications of visual communication design. Students design visual research studies in response to questions arising from co-requisite study in Information Design seminars. |
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| DDN 890 | Doctoral Preliminary Examination | UNITS: 1-9 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| For students who are preparing for and taking written and/or oral preliminary exams. |
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| DDN 893 | Doctoral Supervised Research | UNITS: 1-9 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| Instruction in research and research under the mentorship of a member of the Graduate Faculty. |
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| DDN 895 | Doctoral Dissertation Research | UNITS: 1-9 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| Dissertation research. |
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| DDN 896 | Summer Dissertation Research | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Summer |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| For graduate students whose programs of work specify no formal course work during a summer session and who will be devoting full time to thesis research. |
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| DDN 899 | Doctoral Dissertation Preparation | UNITS: 1-3 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| For students who have completed all credit hour, full-time enrollment, preliminary examination, and residency requirements for the doctoral degree, and are writing and defending their dissertations. |
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