TRAN-506: Design Leadership & Team Bldg

Students will be required to work in teams for certain parts of, and maybe complete studio design projects. This reflects the reality of professional life as a designer. It also enables the final outcomes of projects to have much greater significance, value and complexity. It also leverages the different strengths and backgrounds that each of our students brings to the program. As a student in our program, we are preparing you to also be natural leaders in your professional life - both as thought leaders and to enable you to seize opportunities that you spot, which benefit the projects, the departments or the enterprises that you will be working with. That said, working in teams or taking the lead can be challenging and not comfortable for many aspiring designers. While our faculty, experienced team-players and leaders, will always help students throughout their studio project work, this course will take the form of three workshops over the term where specific experts will help students learn foundational skills in creative leadership and teamwork.