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Minor Description

Acquire skills sought after by industry professionals and work on authentic projects in a collaborative environment with students from a variety of majors. Design thinking ties the different disciplines together and provides a framework for creative problem solving.

Program Requirements

Take 15 credits (9 credits outside of your major). Each requirement teaches a different and unique aspect of design thinking that prepares students for any career field.

  • Introduction to Design Thinking (1-1.5 credits)
  • Design Knowledge and Skills (9 credits)
  • Design Tools (2–3 credits)
  • Capstone Project (3 credits)

Contact Us

Contact Scott Howell at scott.howell@byu.edu or 801-422-1052 to set up a time to discuss the program.

Introduction to Design Thinking Minor

Complete 1 course from the following options:

  • DES 217: Design Thinking (1.5 credits)
  • TECH 112: Innovation (1 credit)

Design Thinking Practices

Complete 9 credits from the following options:

  • ANTHR 414 - Museum Projects
  • ANTHR 442 - Ethnographic Research Design and Methods
  • ANTHR 447 - Applied Anthropology
  • ANTHR 495R - Ethnographic Field Project
  • ANTHR 526 - Museum Exhibitions and Programming
  • ENGL 218 - Creative Writing
  • EXDM 300 - Creating a Good Life through Experience Design
  • EXDM 404 - Experience Design
  • EXDM 422 - Experience Needfinding
  • INDES 341 - Technology Interface Studies for Industrial Design 1
  • IP&T 420 - Learning Theories for Design
  • IP&T 461 - Design Evaluation
  • IP&T 464 - Instructional Design and eLearning for Business/Non-Profits
  • IT&C 255 - User Experience Design
  • IT&C 555 - Advanced Human-Computer Interaction
  • MSB 375 - Social Innovation: Do Good Better
  • PSYCH 350 - (Psych-Soc) Introduction to Social Psychology
  • SFL 102 - Introduction to Interiors
  • TECH 113 - (TECH-ENT) Startup Bootcamp (1 credit)
  • TES 330 - Creativity, Engineering, and Problem Solving

Design Thinking Tools

Complete 1 course from the following options:

  • DESPH 116 - Introduction to Photography and Digital Workflow
  • DIGHT 210 - Introduction to Coding: Desktop Applications
  • DIGHT 230 - Introduction to Print Publishing
  • DIGHT 250 - Web Publishing
  • DIGHT 330 - Print Publishing 2
  • DIGHT 340 - JavaScript Development
  • DIGHT 350 - Web Information Technologies
  • IT&C 210A - Fundamentals of Web-Based Information Technology (2 credits)
  • IT&C 210B - Fundamentals of Web-Based Information Technology (2 credits)
  • TES 200 - Processes and Prototyping with Wood
  • TES 229 - Processes and Manufacturing with Metals and Polymers
  • TES 251 - Video and Photography Production
  • TES 255 - Visual Communication Design

Design Thinking Capstone Project

All other program requirements must be completed either before or during the semester in which the capstone project course is taken.
Complete 1 course from the following options:

  • DESGD 394R - Special Topics (3 credits)
  • EXDM 494R - Experience Design Lab (3 credits)
  • IP&T 498R - Interdisciplinary Product Design for Education (3 credits)
  • IT&C 515R - Special Topics in Information Technology & Cybersecurity (3 credits)
  • MSB 491R - Social Innovation Projects (3 credits)

Introduction to Design Thinking

To learn more about design thinking to determine if you’re interested, take one of these two introductory courses:

  • DES 217: Design Thinking (1.5 credits)
  • TECH 112: Exploration in Innovation Design Techniques (1 credit)

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How To Declare

Go to your major’s academic advisement center to add design thinking as a minor. For more information visit the Education Advisment Center or contact Scott Howell the Program Coordinator at scott.howell@byu.edu or 801-422-1052.

Our Sponsoring Departments

Instructional Psychology and Technology Department
Department of Design
Department of Experience Design and Management
School of Technology

Application Deadline: None
 
 
 
 

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Testimonial

I’m attacking a problem from an advertising point of view, and someone else - like an illustrator or computer science major -- comes at [it] with a completely different point of view, so we are able to come up with something unique and different. I feel like I learn a lot from other people’s creativity.

Hillary Watt, Advertising Major