78 courses with the subject DEA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
DEA 1050Design Your Life: Career Explorations1
Survey course for students interested in careers that influence habitat and human behavior. Careers may include employment in the fields of design (user experience design, interaction design, interior architecture, etc.), design strategy and consulting, ergonomics, facility planning, business, and real estate. Experts and young alumni representing these disciplines discuss their work while addressing current issues, trends, key skill sets, and career opportunities (especially those favoring the knowledge and skill sets that the curriculum of Design and Environmental Analysis supports to develop).
In this three-week session, students will learn how designers think, solve problems, and improve our world. The need for critical thinkers is great and this course will enable students to better understand the world and their role in creating a more humane and sustainable future. The course also introduces design methodologies for creative thinking and practice design skills: sketching, modeling, prototyping, graphics, exhibition design.
This course is an introductory design studio. The primary course objective is to introduce principles of visual literacy as it pertains to two-dimensional and three-dimensional issues in design at all scales. Concepts about representation, expression, composition, color, form, light, structure, and function will be explored through project based learning. The emphasis will be on learning explicit compositional concepts, visualization skills, and media techniques as well as implicit design sensitivities to serve the student throughout the rest of his or her DEA experience and beyond.
This course provides a broad overview of design applied various disciplines, scales, and problem contexts, and how design can offer an alternative, and often more human-centered perspective towards solving the problems around us. With a focus on designing with a human-centered mindset in this age of technology, we will examine topics on the role of design in wearable computing, virtual and tangible interfaces, robotics to biology. We will also apply the lens of design to issues on sustainability, healthy environments, diversity and inclusion, and designing for social good. Each week, through case studies and familiar examples, DEA 1110 explores how designing is part of every discipline.
DEA 1112Change-making: Designing Healthy and Hospitable Environments3
Designing Human-Centered, Healthy and Hospitable Environments is a three-week course examining design innovations and some impacts on management/operations in hospitality, communication, business, healthcare, and senior housing. During this course students will learn how design impacts organizations and every aspect of daily life. Using case studies, familiar examples, and interactions with a variety of leaders from design, healthcare and hospitality fields, students will engage with design thinking and explore new career pathways.
Introduces graphic software programs (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Clo3d, and Inventor) to develop original designs. Class activities and projects include textile design, technical flat drawing design, digitized fashion illustration, 3D virtual fashion design, into to 3D modeling, and story board presentation. Projects include both individual work and group work.
This course immerses students in the act and art of design communication. Students focus on a series of exercises covering both manual and digital visualization techniques to effectively present and communicate ideas to oneself and others. Students will become experienced with Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), AutoCAD, SketchUp and Revit software applications in addition to manual hand skill development (sketching, drafting, rendering).
Environmental Psychology is an interdisciplinary field concerned with how the physical environment and human behavior interrelate. Most of the course focuses on how residential environments and urban and natural settings affect human health and well-being. Students also examine how human attitudes and behaviors affect environmental quality. Issues of environmental justice and culture are included throughout. Hands-on projects plus exams.
DEA 1501Introduction to Environmental Psychology - Writing in the Major1
Environmental Psychology examines how the physical environment and human behavior interrelate. We focus on how the physical environment affects human health and well-being as well as how human attitudes and behaviors affect environmental quality. The 1501 section examines topics in more depth and provides writing and presentation skills while taking DEA 1500 concurrently.
This course introduces the histories, concepts, and frameworks that underlie our understanding of sustainability and how they are shaping environmentally conscious design practices - explored through an investigation of materials, processes, products, practices, and material culture. We utilizes exploratory, participatory, and open-ended learning methods to facilitate design inquiry and propose a more environmentally and socially just future.
DEA 2025Impactful Graphics: Visual Communication for Social Impact3
This course provides a foundation in graphic design to communicate ideas and create impact. This course encourages students to engage with the visual language of design through experimentation, exploration and iteration, connecting action (making visual form) to reflection (looking and thinking). It will require students to reflect upon the relationship between form-making and meaning-making as well as to consider the ethics of graphic design and its impact on society. Students will work in two dimensions by hand and with the digital tools of the Adobe Suite (Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop).
This course intends to develop a fundamental understanding of building systems and their implications for the planning, design, and operation processes, and to introduce the comprehensive concept of “high performance building”. An emphasis is placed on passive, active, and hybrid strategies and system integration for reducing the energy and resources demand and environmental impact of buildings, and creating a smart built environment for occupant safety, health, comfort, and satisfaction with experience. Topics cover building site, structural system, building envelope, heating, cooling and ventilation systems, interior system, lighting system, building acoustics, electrical system, and building controls, etc. Materials in this course help students to build a solid understanding of key building elements and performance mandates of all major building systems as the basis for further study and innovation of future-generation built environments.
The relationship between art and science has been thoroughly discussed by philosophers. This course will review the discussion on this topic and investigate the role of art/science in a variety of professions and its role in creativity.
We often observe, define and interact with the human body as a collection of discreet and varied selves: biological, kinesthetic, phenomenological, physiological. This studio focuses on the constellation of ontologies that form our understanding of what it means to be human, and the corresponding impact these have on how we design and who we design for. At the core of our work will be the question of whether engaging the body as a manifold of ontologies allow designers to better understand and construct the built environment.We will be working extensively with digital modes of observation and production, and hybrid forms of fabrication. You will be expected to work in both physical and digital materials and utilize muliple modes of exploration and production.
Temporal spaces dominate the interior landscape at this point in history, reflecting the fleeting nature of information in a society consumed with momentary experiences. This studio will both expand and contract notions of spatial/environmental communication through brand-forward environments, exhibit-forward environments, and social advocacy experiences.
How does the past inform the future? This course examines the history and theory of environmental design from the classical era to the 20th century, focusing on the relationship between design and innovation as a catalyst for cultural change. How have design innovations broadened the palette of human expression and experience? Key projects, methods, and ideas from across the world will be explored, encouraging a speculative approach to historical material.
DEA 2700Healthy Places: Design, Planning and Public Health3
Drawing from public health, environmental psychology, design, urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture, we examine how the physical environment influences health and health behaviors. We consider various contexts from rooms and buildings to parks and cities. Outcomes include physical and mental health, diet, physical activity and obesity.
This course explores the use of design methods to generate ideas and evaluate designed objects, environments, and interfaces. Lectures cultivate an understanding of the various methods, while hands-on activities provide opportunity to apply these methods to the design of a small device and its interactions with people and things.
Light brings both necessity and nuance to the built environment, creating functional spaces and conjuring apparitions in perception, scale, time and sensory impulses. Developing a working knowledge of lighting design while seeking light as a transformative element, students will create lighting design/documentation and build light fixtures.
A sustainable approach to the evaluation and selection of materials and finishes for creating products and places for people has the potential to ensure the future survival of our planet. This course provides an introduction to basic material properties and asks students to morph material sensibilities, understand performance testing, building codes, and formulate a life-cycle cost analysis. Emphasis on green methodologies and assessment, including the LEED and WELL building rating systems.
Construction documents are the written and graphic documents used to communicate a project design for construction and administration in the built world. In this course, students will gain exposure to leading industry tools, methods, and standards for producing construction drawings. Through a series of hands-on activities and assignments, students will explore components and details commonly used in design and construction, meet with practitioners in the field, and complete a basic set of drawings and documents in a BIM environment (REVIT).
DEA 3055Hospitality, Health and Design Industry Immersion Seminar1
This course provides students the opportunity to learn directly from invited industry speakers with expertise in a spectrum of industries that link health, wellness, senior living with hospitality and design. The speakers share their views on business, managerial, career, and other critical industry-related issues.
This intermediate-level studio focuses on designing innovative commercial and/or learning/workplace environments. Various types of users experience design and evaluation approaches to design-problem solving will engage students in innovative interior design processes and outcomes. Effective use of technology for user experience simulation will be emphasized throughout the course.
DEA 3302The New Typologies: Design Strategy Studio4
The studio engages students in problem-solving, freehand drawings, digital and design skills to develop an innovative environment including libraries, retail, and learning spaces, specifically responding to cultural shifts in the built environment.
This studio aims to familiarize students with the generative approach in the design process and learn about topics including essential mathematics for computational design, shape grammar, design optimization tools, evolutionary computing, and generative design theory. Students will work in teams to design and develop a generative system that can work in conjunction with a human (a designer or non-designer) to create a product that is not achievable by a human or a computer working alone.
This course focuses on the practice of 'Positive Design' - design that aims to proactively promote or support the well-being of individuals or communities by evoking valuable experiences.
Introduces human-factor considerations in lighting, acoustics, noise control, indoor air quality and ventilation, and the thermal environment. Views the ambient environment as a support system that should promote human efficiency, productivity, health, and safety. Emphasizes the implications for planning, design, and management of settings and facilities.
The course explores how human factors and user inclusivity can be systematically considered and implemented in the development of products (e.g., the capabilities and constraints of the physical, cognitive and cultural makeup of human beings). The course includes practical exercises and field project work.
DEA 3530Planning and Managing the Workplace: Evidence-Based Design and Organizational Ecology3
Examine how the physical design and management of workplaces impacts both the health and performance of knowledge workers and also an organization's overall business outcomes. Learn about the latest trends in various workplace settings. Analyze the components of work and provide relevant and applicable design solutions. Learn the fundamentals of ethnographic methods for collecting user information to inform decision making about planning and managing workplaces to maximize health, efficiency, safety, productivity, and profitability.
DEA 3550Research Methods in Human-Environment Relations3
This course provides a foundation in research design, methods and tools, particularly those commonly used in human-environment relations (HER) research. Student will learn of the main aims and approaches to conducting HER research, as well as its terminology, logic, and procedures. Research examples, class exercises and project case studies will help to illustrate and reinforce course objectives. By the end of the course you will have an understanding of how to design, conduct, report, and critically evaluate research studies. Skills gained in this course will also enable you to be a savvy consumer of research.
For study that involves both responsible participation in a community setting and reflection on that experience through discussion, reading, and writing. Academic credit is awarded for this integration of theory and practice.
DEA 4025Design for Change: Imagining Decolonial Futures3
This course explores the role of design in reshaping the world towards social justice and sustainability. Designing for change requires creating different cultural patterns and worldviews - examining taken-for-granted assumptions, narratives, and myths of the hegemonic cultural model (known as Modernity) that limit our capacity to imagine the world differently. As the world is enmeshed in colossal interconnected crises, it seems that imagination has been funneled to two avenues: techno-solutions to the symptoms of the crises and dystopic futures. This course explores two main ideas: a) alternatives are possible, b) the area of design for change would benefit from exchanges with different cultures and knowledge systems. Designing decolonial futures is about weaving together knowledge from multiple cultures, thus recognizing and creating alternatives based on different ways of understanding the world.
For study that includes teaching methods in the field and assisting faculty with instruction. Students must have demonstrated a high level of performance in the subject to be taught and in the overall academic program.
Professional Practice/Ethics is designed to prepare graduating seniors with the working knowledge and essential skills needed to pursue professional jobs and other opportunities in the competitive field of design. This course is an introduction to the Professional Practice of the design disciplines; and concepts, conventions and processes related to the design and construction industry. Emphasis is placed on professionalism, professional ethics, leadership skills, regulation of the profession, business management, contracts and negotiations, specifications, building planning controls, and other aspects of professional practice.
This course is designed for students who want to learn the basic principles of visual communication and how to apply them in concert with design methodologies in order to solve communication and design problems. Visual communication can clarify, distill and translate complex designs, data and ideas. The class introduces principles of graphic design and visual communications using a range of representation techniques. It explores ways to communicate ideas digitally through text, image and video. The focus will be on the applications in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and AfterEffects.In addition, the course will assist and mentor students in assembling a comprehensive portfolio of their academic work. Students will learn graphic techniques, as well as how to organize and layout their projects in both book and digital formats. The purpose of the portfolio is to showcase each student's best technical, creative, and analytical skills. The end product will be a customized template that can then be supplemented with new projects as students continue to develop professionally.
This course is a design-oriented lecture/seminar course for students who are concerned about the role they play as design professionals in affecting the biophysical world. The course's prime objective is to develop a new worldview founded on a broader sensitivity for things living and an accompanying set of meaningful environmental ethics. The course's secondary objectives are to develop a deeper knowledge of environmental issues, construct conceptual frameworks for analysis of these issues and to demonstrate how ecological knowledge can be applied to design.
This engaged learning course applies design strategies to real-world problems in a business context; in other words, we take a human-centered approach to innovation. Students act as business design consultants working directly with a social enterprise client on a sustainability-related challenge throughout the semester. Working in multidisciplinary teams, students apply a design toolkit and mindset for creative problem solving to a project that results in a portfolio-ready deliverable. This collaboration allows students to immerse themselves in a professional setting in which they explore business opportunities; develop innovative concepts; and propose and prototype entrepreneurial solutions, particularly around the theme of circular economy. Past clients include the City of Ithaca Economic Development and Finger Lakes ReUse. Satisfies the Dyson Grand Challenges project requirement.
DEA 4401Adaptive Reuse Studio: Recycling the Built Environment3
Economic and social forces have created the need for the adaptive reuse of existing structures vs new construction throughout the built environment. Utilizing sustainable principles and the LEED rating system, this comprehensive studio challenges students to complete all phases of a historic preservation project using an historic structure in the Northeast. Site visits for building assessments, professional practice tutorials, and seminars on preservation enable students to develop a holistic understanding of how a building thinks and learns over time.
This course is a unique studio bringing together students on interdisciplinary teams to work on competitions, speculative projects and real client challenges requiring both a design and business case within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You will develop projects and processes from the intersection of your respective disciplines, enabling all participants to generate creative, innovative and feasible ideas, as well as communicate your vision effectively persuasively. This course is ideal for those interested in design, social innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship. It offers an opportunity to work in the intense studio environment, characterized by the iterative, human-centered design process, fast failure and peer learning. Each student will submit at least 3 design projects of various scale, requirements and origin, resulting in portfolio-ready projects that past students have gone on to develop and grow after graduation.
Today’s advancements in technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and robotics are rapidly transforming human experiences. In response, this course, drawing on Speculative Design and Design Futures, engages students in hands-on design inquiries to critically examine emerging technologies (especially AI) and their implications. Borrowing from the arts, critical design, and science fiction, the course challenges students to prototype alternative technological futures and interrogate how these innovations redefine design paradigms, the ethical boundaries of technology, and the evolving responsibilities of designers in the future. *This year, the course will focus on AI. Students will be tasked with creating a design prototype that integrates AI in a meaningful and thought-provoking way.
DEA 4500Policy Meets Design: High-Impact Facilities of the 21st Century3
Active participation from local and global leads, industry, and healthcare providers, students examine how well-designed environments and policies empower people, organizations, and communities to achieve their health-related operational and business objectives. Students apply the lessons from high-impact environments to their specific area of interest (e.g. senior living, healthcare, hospitality, education, housing, landscape, and urban planning).
An architectural program is used to define the design problem, guide the design process and evaluate design solutions. Students will develop skills in preparing a program while keeping in mind the potential audiences. This course emphasizes the role of social science research and environment - behavior interaction in facility planning and in the design process.
Covers physical and cognitive ergonomic methods and techniques and their application to the design of products and modern work environments. Covers conceptual frameworks for ergonomics analysis, systems methods and processes, a repertoire of ergonomics methods, and techniques for the analysis of products, work activities and work systems.
DEA 4800Ethical Design: Engine of Positive Change3
Design has the power to change how we view and interact with the world which can cause positive or negative impacts. Modern society faces various issues which are all closely related to the ethical aspects of design: humanitarian crises, labor exploitation, injustice in the workplace, loss of diversity, overconsumption, pollution, lack of transparency and pseudo-solutions to name a few. This course will discuss various ethical issues in design that impact individuals, community/society, economies, cultures, social dynamics, and the environment.
Opportunity for DEA majors to undertake original research and scholarly work leading to the preparation of a thesis. Students work closely with their thesis advisor on a topic of interest. For information, students should visit https://www.human.cornell.edu/dea/academics/undergraduate/honors.
As digital experiences isolate us from physical places and embodied play, familiar places offer opportunities to reconnect through tangible interaction design. Using microcontrollers, sensors, actuators, and fabrication techniques, students design, prototype and evaluate devices that shape CyberPLAYces to foster play, community, and engagement, making them resonate with our emotional and social lives.
The built and natural environment can provide efficient and effective mechanisms that restore the body and mind's ability to heal. In this studio, students will utilize spatial constructs that apply principles of environmental psychology; address code-compliance, critical adjacencies, and workflow circulation; and support evidence-based design principles.
DEA 5520Virtual Experience of Designed Environments3
This course will immerse students in advanced techniques of design communication and evaluation for simulation-based research on user experience in designed environments. Through lectures, readings, demos, and hands on exercises, the course explores advanced visualization media for design and design research.
This course provides students with a unique hands-on experience of working with real clients to simulate workplace strategic consulting practice. Students will learn and apply concepts, techniques (both strategic and tactical), and tools to plan, design, evaluate, and reinvent workplaces to support the achievement of ambitious business goals, inspire today's connected and mobile knowledge workers, facilitate the management of uncertainty and change in large complex organizations, and envision future work modes and its implications for the creation of future workplace. Professional communication in multiple forms and settings for effective client interaction and project development is emphasized.
This course focuses on the role of the built environment in fostering healthy development and aging across the lifespan, as well as examining how designed environments can support or limit healthy development and aging. Specifically, it will examine the relationship between children and older adults and their everyday environments at three scales: the city/community, individual spaces/interiors, and at the product/technology level. Through presentations, readings, fieldwork, site visits, design case studies, and community-engaged projects, students will critically explore age-friendly frameworks, and research and design strategies to gain an appreciation of the potential impacts, as well as opportunities and challenges, of designing age-friendly environments. Students will also be introduced to effective strategies and tools for assessing the age-friendliness of communities, spaces, and products, and translating findings from research and best practices into successful, supportive designed environments for children and older adults.
DEA 6025Design for Change: Imagining Decolonial Futures3
This course explores the role of design in reshaping the world towards social justice and sustainability. Designing for change requires creating different cultural patterns and worldviews - examining taken-for-granted assumptions, narratives, and myths of the hegemonic cultural model (known as Modernity) that limit our capacity to imagine the world differently. As the world is enmeshed in colossal interconnected crises, it seems that imagination has been funneled to two avenues: techno-solutions to the symptoms of the crises and dystopic futures. This course explores two main ideas: a) alternatives are possible, b) the area of design for change would benefit from exchanges with different cultures and knowledge systems. Designing decolonial futures is about weaving together knowledge from multiple cultures, thus recognizing and creating alternatives based on different ways of understanding the world.
DEA 6055Hospitality, Health and Design Industry Immersion Seminar1
This course provides students the opportunity to learn directly from invited industry speakers with expertise in a spectrum of industries that link health, wellness, senior living with hospitality and design. The speakers share their views on business, managerial, career, and other critical industry-related issues. (MHA-EL)
This graduate course explores design-thinking strategies at the intersections of creativity, science, and engineering. Students will learn about the creative strategies that today's designers use to address complex problems, and they will apply intuition, imagination, and reasoning to produce innovative design solutions. Different theoretical themes and design thinking techniques will be introduced and explored each week through critical readings, discussions, and creative synthesis. (MHA-EL)
This course is a seminar course intended for graduate students in Design and Environmental Analysis and graduate students in related fields. The course introduces students to the history, theories, and major research trends in the field of human-environment relations. Human environment relations refer to the interaction between the built environment and human behavior. The course draws upon literature from multiple disciplines, including environmental psychology, human factors/ergonomics, sociology, human development, facility planning, geography, and urban planning.
Embedding robotics into the fabric of the built environment fosters a more interactive and potentially more intimate relationship between the spaces we live in and us, and represents a new frontier for design, computing, and psychology. Part-seminar, part-lab, this course considers the design, technical, social, ecological, and ethical challenges and opportunities of architectural robotics.
This course discusses critical barriers for delivering sustainable and net-zero buildings, and brings attention to multiple points of intervention that relate to the role of human being in building practice, for significant improvement in quality of built environments, building energy performance, and the overall environmental impact of the building sector. Strategies at different stages of building lifecycle, including planning, design, finance, construction, operation, and retrofit processes that affect climate change mitigation and resilience building will be explored.
This graduate-level course examines artificial intelligence (AI) as a critical design medium for rethinking human-computer interaction. Moving beyond conventional HCI paradigms, students will explore how AI and physical interfaces can be merged to align with the complexities of human cognition, behavior, and emotion. We particularly focus on physical designs with AI—considering somatic, sensory, and emotional dimensions that are inherent to us. The resulting designs will explore factors beyond accuracy and performance, incorporating users' experience, individuality, and sense of self as central design considerations. The course challenges the prevailing assumption of humans as information processors. Grounded in HCI theories and human-centered design methodologies, students will engage in seminars, research workshops, and hands-on prototyping to envision future interfaces that are more thoughtful, responsible, and intrinsically aligned with us.
This studio aims to familiarize students with the generative approach in the design process and learn about topics including essential mathematics for computational design, shape grammar, design optimization tools, evolutionary computing, and generative design theory. Students will work in teams to design and develop a generative system that can work in conjunction with a human (a designer or non-designer) to create a product that is not achievable by a human or a computer working alone.
Each student is required to attend DEA 4590 lectures, complete all required readings and assignments, and meet with the instructor and with other graduate students. An additional programming project is required for all graduate students.An architectural program is used to define the design problem, guide the design process and evaluate design solutions. Students will develop skills in preparing a program while keeping in mind the potential audiences. This course emphasizes the role of social science research and environment - behavior interaction in facility planning and in the design process.
Intended for graduate students who want a more thorough grounding in human factors than is provided by DEA 3510. Implications of human physical and physiological characteristics and limitations on the design of settings, products, and tasks. An introduction to engineering anthropometry, biomechanics, control/display design, work physiology, and motor performance. Includes practical exercises and field project work.
DEA 6520 is intended for graduate students who want a more thorough grounding in human factors considerations than is provided by DEA 3500. Introduces human-factor considerations in lighting, acoustics, noise control, indoor air quality and ventilation, and the thermal environment. Views the ambient environment as a support system that should promote human efficiency, productivity, health, and safety. Emphasizes the implications for planning, design, and management of settings and facilities.
DEA 6530Planning and Managing the Workplace: Evidence-based Design and Organizational Ecology3
Work environments have cultural, health, performance and economic implications for a society, community, organization, or individual. Workplace has transformed during the post pandemic era. The environmental, operational, social and cultural elements of the future workplace are in flux and the vision for the future workplace offers an opportunity for innovation and transformation. We will join industry leaders to collectively solve this paradigm. During the class, we will combine practical tools and scientific knowledge from sychology, Organizational Behavior, User Experience Design, Systems Engineering, Human Factors, Cognitive Engineering, Human Centered Design and Architecture to create a successful vision for the high performing workplace of the future.
DEA 6540Policy Meets Design: High-Impact Facilities of the 21st Century3
This course has been co-created and co-led by forward-thinking community, national and global leaders. This course challenges our notions on the ways policy and design can empower people, organizations, and communities to achieve health-related operational and business objectives. In this class, we think critically together and apply a systems approach to analyze policies, identify environmental strategies, and propose and design solutions to improve lives. Course modules examine how concepts such as environmental psychology, behavioral economics, spatial analyses, human centered design, LEAN, and systems approach can be used to optimize environments and policies to produce healthy, and sustainable facilities and communities. We study the issues from multiple stakeholder perspectives, explore bottom up and top down approaches to catalyze positive change. The lessons learned and case studies shared are from health and healthcare and can be applied by the students to their area and sector of interest. Students contribute actively to the course content by customizing their readings and leading discussion sessions on a weekly basis. (MPA-TPA)
Engage in a dialogue among design, health, medicine, policy, engineering, and management disciplines on innovations in healthcare through multidisciplinary practice. Learn about the latest concepts of evidence-based design (EBD) and healing environments, discuss practical applications, and have the option to gain skills for Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC). (MHA-EL)
For graduate students who want to gain an understanding of research design and methods. Course begins with fundamentals of research design and covers internal and external validity, measurement reliability and validity, and a variety of tools and techniques. (MHA-EL)
This seminar examines how the physical and social contexts of disadvantage shape child development. We investigate how childhood disadvantage influences biology and health as well as cognitive and socioemotional development through the settings disadvantage children grow up in.
Intended for graduate students who want a more thorough understanding of applied ergonomic methods than is provided by DEA 4700. Each student is required to attend DEA 4700 lectures, meet with the instructor and other graduate students for an additional class each week, and complete additional readings and projects. Covers physical and cognitive ergonomic methods and techniques and their application to the design of products and modern work environments. Emphasizes understanding key concepts. Covers conceptual frameworks for ergonomic analysis, systems methods and processes, a repertoire of ergonomics methods, and techniques for the analysis of products, work activities and work systems.
DEA 6800Ethical Design: Engine of Positive Change3
Modern society faces various issues which are all closely related to the ethical aspects of design: humanitarian crises, labor exploitation, injustice in the workplace, loss of diversity, over-consumption, pollution, lack of transparency and pseudo-solutions to name a few. This course will discuss various ethical issues in design that impact individuals, community/society, economies, cultures, social dynamics, and the environment. Students will identify and analyze critical ethical problems and explore solutions through class activities.
This pro seminar meets once per week, and consists of professional development workshops (e.g., grant writing, scholarly presentations, research communications, IRB, nonacademic career) as well as student presentations of thesis development. The goal is to support young graduate students optimize their graduate experience at Cornell.
