Design Futures College - School of Design and Society
Reed Kroloff
Dean
Jennifer deWinter
Interim Director
id.iit.edu
Since its founding as the New Bauhaus in 1937, the Institute of Design has grown into the largest full-time graduate-only design program in the U.S. with students from around the world. The school offers a professional Master of Design degree program with areas of study in communication design, interaction design, product design, strategic design, systems thinking, and user research; a dual Master of Design/M.B.A. or a dual Master of Design/M.P.A. degree program in partnership with the Stuart School of Business; the Master of Design Methods, a nine-month program for mid-career professionals; and a Ph.D. in Design. The Institute of Design created the country's first Ph.D. design program in 1991.
Minor in Human-Centered Design
Required courses (choose a minimum of 6 credits)
ID 410 Introduction to Design Processes (3crs)
ID 420 Fundamentals of Design (3crs)
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| IPRO 497 | Interprofessional (IPRO) Project | 3 |
Domain-specific electives (choose a minimum of 6 credits**)
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| BME 419 | Introduction to Design Concepts in Biomedical Engineering | 2 |
| BME 420 | Design Concepts in Biomedical Engineering | 3 |
| HUM 371 | 3 | |
| HUM 372 | 3 | |
| ITMD 361 | Fundamentals of Web Development | 3 |
| ITMD 362 | Human-Computer Interaction and Web Design | 3 |
| MMAE 232 | Design for Innovation | 3 |
| MMAE 445 | Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing | 3 |
**Courses in colleges outside of the Institute of Design (ID) may have additional prerequisites or limitations on enrollment. Some 4th-year students may be able to enroll in 500 level courses at ID on a case by case basis as assessed by ID faculty.
