Curriculum & learning outcomes
All students earning their OSU undergraduate degree (180 credits) in a design discipline from the OSU College of Business complete a common design core. This core, consisting of about 86 credits across all four years, provides students with a strong design foundation. Additionally, design and innovation management coursework for the major and minor and a sample four-year academic plan are listed below.
Major required courses
Minor required courses
Four-year plan
Learning outcomes
Design and innovation management graduates will be professionally competent to:
- Identify, define and describe design management practice in relation to various types of businesses and business models and its effect on social, environmental, political, cultural, and economic systems.
- Identify, define and solve human-centered design opportunities.
- Formulate and conduct design research.
- Apply design thinking and visual thinking processes to understand the framework of problem solving.
- Explore and iterate multiple ideas.
- Express ideas through visual representations and create prototypes that consider utility, usability and desirability of solutions.