ANTH 384: Designing For People: Anthropological Approaches

0 or 3 credits

Spring 2025 Lecture Laboratory Distance Learning Upper Division
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Spring 2025
last updated 2/17/2025

This course is about designing for people. You will use anthropological knowledge and skills to better understand human and technology interactions. With students from other fields, you will learn how to apply an anthropological perspective to human centered design and design with the needs of a specific user group in mind.

Learning Outcomes

1Learn about design anthropology and how to work in this area.

2Cooperatively engage in ethnographic and design processes.

3Demonstrate teamwork skills, use ethical decision making, apply critical thinking skills, and demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge in real-world settings.

4Communicate clearly both orally and in the written word by properly documenting the design process using anthropological fieldnotes, an engineer's notebook, and presenting final design solutions.

Course ANTH 384 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.

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3.6

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Todd...(Spring 2019)
3.8
Sher...(Spring 2019)
3.8
Abra...(Fall 2019)

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Sema...(Fall 2023)

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