DEA 6680 - Design Theory and Criticism Seminar

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Limited to 15 students.

DEA faculty.

For advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The seminar explores two methods of design thinking: theoretical and critical. One method stems from a desire to understand historical theory and to assess the relevance of theory as an intellectual basis for contemporary design. The other approach involves learning to write critically. Within this construct is the notion that every design is an argument a designer makes.