USC Schedule of Classes

One-week campus residential. Introduction to program themes, content, concepts, theories, and processes. Opportunity to build skills and meet cohort, with an emphasis on team building. Open only to Integrated Design, Business and Technology majors. Graded CR/NC.

Overview of design language, process and product. Build fluency in applying core visual principles and design-based problem-solving techniques. Explore historical and contemporary design issues. Recommended preparation: IDSN 510. Open only to Integrated Design, Business and Technology majors.

Overview of general business and management concepts and techniques that builds theoretical and analytical fluency and identifies and examines leadership and managerial challenges. Recommended preparation: IDSN 510. Open only to Integrated Design, Business and Technology majors.

Overview of core information technology concepts, methods, and frameworks. Develop aptitude in using tools, applications and systems; learn basic programming languages and methodologies. Recommended preparation: IDSN 510. Open only to Integrated Design, Business and Technology majors.

Discipline-specific, cross-disciplinary, and shared approaches to products, services, projects, systems, organizational development. Topics include creative and user-focused perspectives, feasibility analytics, lean startup techniques.

Faculty-mentored project paired with a Core course. Demonstrate individual and simultaneous skills and competency across fields and within cross-functional, cross-disciplinary teams. Recommended preparation: IDSN 510. Open only to Integrated Design, Business and Technology majors.

Discipline-specific, cross-disciplinary, and shared approaches to recognizing/analyzing opportunities, identifying/framing problems, and developing/iterating solutions. Techniques gleaned from entrepreneurship, creative practices, critical thinking methods, ethnography, systems theory.