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Design & Innovation Management

Creative integration of design and business

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.
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