Design Thinking (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Design thinking as a way of seeing, observing and sensing the world.
Design thinking as methods of making sense of the complexity.
Design Thinking 5 ECTS course is for anyone, who wishes to learn holistic human and experimental approach to be exploited in different challenges in different professional fields.
The course is structured in Introduction week + 4 main themes:
1. Holistic View
2. Human View
3. Experimenting / prototyping
4. Concept Design Each theme includes group tasks that are built on previous tasks.
Studying will be more intensive during May and until mid June. From mid June until the end in August 14th will be independent studying with the Concept Design group task.
After the course student knows different definitions of design thinking and is able to apply design thinking viewpoint and some of the methods in different challenges and in multidisciplinary teams and different fields.
ENROLLMENT for the course: http://turkuamk.e-lomake.fi/lomakkeet/304/lomakkeet.html

Objective

After the course student knows different definitions of design thinking and is able to apply design thinking viewpoint and some of the methods in different challenges and in multidisciplinary teams and different fields.

Content

Design thinking as a way of seeing, observing and sensingthe world.
Design thinking as methods of making sense of the complexity.

Materials

In Optima platform

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

Studying is executed in cross-disciplinary teams in web environment, which requires students' commitment for the group working and communication.

Evaluation methods and criteria

By the scale of 0-5 by the active participation for the tasks and work together - Self & Peer evaluation 50% - Teacher's evaluation 50% by veto right

Failed (0)

No participation in every group tasks.
No self & peer evaluation returned

Further information

Web course and web communication possibilities required