0 or 3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Laboratory Distance Learning Upper Division
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 Outcomes1Identify opportunities for innovation that emerge from ethnographic studies and divergent thinking approaches to design.
2Apply diverse team approaches to address open-ended and ill-defined design problems.
3Describe and apply ethical decision-making to real-world design settings.
4Demonstrate documentation of the design process from ethnography through choosing a design idea to make, including fieldnotes, drawings and digital presentation techniques.
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