Innovation & Society infuses design thinking and data science as core competencies within a liberal arts framework. Working in a highly collaborative setting, students are immersed in solving real-world problems across disciplines and majors. You will learn facilitation and leadership skills that can be applied in a variety of workplace settings. Courses engage in hands-on learning about design thinking, leadership, communication, experience design, artificial intelligence, accessibility, and data science. In our courses students learn the most innovative strategies to leverage creativity and accountability to our communities.
The curriculum for Innovation & Society consists of 24 credit hours (18 credit hours in the co-major and 6 credits generally double counted with the primary major) and is available to any student as a secondary major. Innovation & Society cannot be taken as a stand-alone major. All students must be completing another undergraduate major within the university. In fact, a feature of Innovation and Society is that students from all majors learn to work together to solve problems, which directly models how most creative workplaces operate today.
