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.

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.

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.

Generate portfolio of solutions for a given "problem." Explore solutions and decisions, mechanisms for reducing uncertainty and risk. Includes quantitative and qualitative techniques.

Faculty-mentored, applied project with individual and team components. Implement a prototype solution to a problem. Deploy relevant tools, methods, and processes learned throughout the program. Recommended preparation: All prior required courses (excluding concurrent courses). Open only to Integrated Design, Business and Technology majors.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units, which may be applied to the degree, to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Selected topics in design, business and technology.