Bachelor of Science - Community Centered Design

The Community-Centered Design major helps students learn about creative collaboration and design processes which includes understanding complex issues and develop, implement, and share new ideas.

Focused on sustainable and responsible solutions for real-world communities, this B.S. program places equal emphasis on theory, critical thinking, reflection, creativity, empathy, and working effectively with others, including community members and professionals in different fields.

Students customize their education by picking a concentration in Applied Design or Relational Design. The Applied Design concentration emphasizes design processes needed to create tangible output; built or material products; simulations, interfaces or experiences that address the needs of the user; a person or a community. Tracks include Communication Design, and Green Design.

The Relational Design concentration emphasizes design processes related to understanding and interacting with stakeholders, and creating within the complex relationships among people, across communities, and within systems. Tracks include Community Resilience, Advocacy & Social Change and Project Leadership, Management & Planning.