Description
The Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation integrates knowledge and methodology from a number of disciplines: design, business, science and technology, and the social sciences. Design provides the crucial link between these areas, drawing on its essential competencies of design thinking, strategic and iterative methodology, and a deep commitment to understanding human needs, wants and behaviour. Through holistic thinking in a co-creative environment, the designer, the business person, the social scientist and the engineer will develop together the skills required for true socio-technological innovation.
The Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation will enable students to:
Required Courses and Timeline
Curriculum: 45 credits
The MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation is a part-time program. In order to support the needs of students who may be working full or part time while completing the program, courses will be clustered and/or offered in the evening. The program also offers some flexibility in course sequencing, and students may (with the approval of the Graduate Program Director and pending the availability of courses) follow a different sequence than that indicated below.
Year One | Year Two |
Fall semester (6 credits) SFIN 6B01: Business and Design Thinking (3) SFIN 6B03: The Human Factor (3) |
Fall semester (6 credits) SFIN 6C02: Foresight and Innovation Studio (6) |
Winter semester (9 credits) SFIN 6C01: Research Methodologies (6) SFIN 6B02: Human Systems (3) |
Winter semester (6 credits) SFIN 6B06: Strategic Communications (3) SFIN 6B07: Leadership Excellence (3) |
Summer semester (6 credits) SFIN 6B05: Business Modeling and Policy Innovation (3) SFIN 6B04: Non-human Systems (3) |
Summer semester (12 credits) SFIN 6E01: Major Project (12) |
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