Design 760 Graduate Design Studio

Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design

Spring Quarter 2010 Office Hours: By Appointment
Instructor: Carolina Gill Email: gill.175@osu.edu
Time: 2:30 to 5:18, Tuesdays

Vision, Mission, Learning Goals or Competencies

Methodology for Curriculum Design:

Identify patterns from all of your research activities and prioritize the findings.
Before laying out the details of the new curriculum, spend some time analyzing the
program’s mission and learning outcomes. Feel free to propose a new vision, and to change
the current mission.

Based on your findings, identify how the courses/content and activities from your make-tools
meet the current learning outcomes. These outcomes are based on NASAD requirements so
we don’t have a lot of freedom to change them, but there is some room if your group feels
strongly about it. You can re-write them based on the NASAD document attached. You can
also add one learning outcome if you feel is necessary (we can only have 6).

Your final deliverables are:

1. Vision, Mission and Program Learning Goals
2. Curricular Map based on Program Learning Goals and competency levels (see ArtEd
example)
3. General goals for courses (you don’t have to define every single course. You can
consider groups or sequences of courses)
4. Curriculum Structure (Chronological map)

This information is challenging to present to any audience. Your task is to design an

effective way to communicate this content to prospective students as well as to a NASAD
accreditation team (for the purpose of mapping the course objectives to the learning goals).

5. Documentation of the process (Blog) and final reflection. It is important to make

evident how the insights form your research fed your final direction

Timeline:
Either June 1st or June 8th depending on progress

Definitions of Terms and Examples

Vision: The inspiration, the framework for all decisions (Dreams and hopes).
To become the leading program in Design innovation in the country. The program will
prepare innovative and effective designers with well-integrated leadership competencies
and visualization skills who can envision future possibilities and execute change. (I just
made this up since we don’t have one that I know of)

Current Mission: What are the program’s general aims?

Comprised of a dynamic set of disciplines – industrial, interior, and visual communication

design – the Department of Design has created and maintains a learning environment that
fosters critical thinking, the acquisition of design skills and knowledge, and the development
and exploration of new design knowledge through a multidisciplinary research based
approach.
The department is committed to addressing emerging challenges by exposing students to
the national and international design community and by emphasizing design ethics
pertaining to social and environmental design problems.

Learning Goals: What should graduates know, do, and care about? (based on
NASAD)

1. The ability to address design opportunities, including the skills of problem

identification, formulation, qualitative and quantitative research, analysis,
synthesis, prototyping, user testing, and evaluation of outcomes.

2. A proficient level of competency with tools, technologies, skills and materials

and their roles in the exploration, creation, and production of products,
artifacts, environments, systems, communication solutions and services.

3. An understanding of basic professional practices, including the ability to

communicate, document, organize, lead and work productively as team
members able to adapt to the expanding roles of a contemporary designer.

4 An understanding of the role and ethical responsibility of design in the local

and global context, including the foundational comprehension of the
application of the concepts of sustainability, social innovation and empathic
design to practice.

5 A functional knowledge of design history, theory and criticism, including an

understanding of relationships among the various related and complimentary
disciplines.

6 ?

Course Goals: Broad descriptions of the purpose of the course that state what it will
provide students
Course Learning outcomes: Measureable statements about the conceptual abilities, skills,
knowledge, and behaviors that students will gain and demonstrate in each class.