USC Schedule of Classes

Optional short-term, primarily residential, learning experience paired with an event/activity. Intensive experience aligns with and extends the cross-disciplinary nature of the program. Recommended preparation: IDSN 510 and IDSN 540. Open only to Integrated Design, Business and Technology majors.

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.

One-week off-campus residential. Applied, intensive workshop format focused on solutions for real-world problems with input from industry experts. Recommended preparation: IDSN 510, IDSN 520, IDSN 525, IDSN 540 and/or IDSN 530. Open only to: Integrated Design, Business and Technology majors.

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 exploring visual, written, and spoken storytelling using digital modalities. Topics include communication theory, narrative structures and content creation.