USC Schedule of Classes

Selected topics in design, business and technology.

Advanced methods and techniques for applying human-centered design to the development and launch of products and enterprises. Includes workshop design and facilitation, co-creation and synthesis.

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.

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.

Fundamental methods, concepts and techniques necessary to design useful, functional and delightful mobile and web products.

Overview of general business and management concepts and techniques that builds theoretical and analytical fluency and identifies and examines leadership and managerial challenges.

Overview of core information technology concepts, methods, and frameworks. Develop aptitude in using tools, applications and systems; learn basic programming languages and methodologies.

Introduces concepts of interaction design through the medium of physical computing. Students learn the technological basics to create innovative, interactive experiences in physical objects.

Provides context for creating augmented and virtual reality by examining the technologies that enable them and the perspectives for new applications in virtual and physical spaces.

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. Demonstrate individual and simultaneous skills and competency across fields and within cross-functional, cross-disciplinary teams.

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.

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 other required courses (excluding concurrent courses).

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.