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Unit of Study AAD72211 - Design Thinking (2019)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    <96> credit points in any SCU unit

  • Enrolment information

    A minimum 80% attendance is required to qualify for a passing grade.

Unit description

Introduces students to Design Thinking and its problem solving methodologies. Design Thinking unpacks the skills and strategies developed by the design process to a wide range of problems and situations. These skills and strategies include a range of conceptual and communication approaches, ways to explore and reconsider the context in which we work, as well as what should or could be achieved.

Unit content

  • History of Design Thinking and development
  • School and the Design Thinking programme
  • Project based problem solving and symmetrical application
  • Key issues and potential opportunities
  • Entrepreneurship and its application

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2019

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Demonstrate understanding of the concepts of design thinking and their application
2 Apply Design Thinking methods and approaches to a project-based problem, to develop new perspectives on key issues and to identify potential opportunities
3 Develop, test and evaluate original proposals in response to project- based problems

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate understanding of the concepts of design thinking and their application
    • GA7:
  2. Apply Design Thinking methods and approaches to a project-based problem, to develop new perspectives on key issues and to identify potential opportunities
    • GA3:
  3. Develop, test and evaluate original proposals in response to project- based problems
    • GA5: