Course Descriptions
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Digital Innovation + Design (Required)
COID 101 Introduction to Digital Innovation and Design Degree
An introduction to the Digital Innovation and Design degree. Exploration of the program learning outcomes and the creation of individualized academic and career goals and plans. Introduction to design-thinking methodology and the technologies used in courses for this degree. Development of the skills, behaviors, and mindsets of an adaptive learner. Establish connections to peers, instructors, and advisors in the College of Innovation and Design. Explore campus support resources and opportunities related to academic, social, financial, and physical health and wellness.
PREREQ: Admitted to Digital and Innovation and Design BA.
COID 201 Teamwork and Project Management Studio
Learn about and practice interpersonal and leadership skills for contributing to a team. Explore research-based strategies for building emotional intelligence and remaining flexible and adaptive to changing environments and opposing viewpoints. Learn and apply project management principles, strategies, and tools. Connect these competencies to your academic and career plans and goals. This class can be used towards Project Management Professional certification requirement.
PREREQ: COID 101.
COID 301 Design Your Life
Build on and revise individualized academic and career goals and plans using design-thinking tools. Explore, prototype, and test possible futures and careers through networking, informational interviews, and other direct experiences. Articulate competencies relevant to career pathways of interest, and create plans for graduating with the needed experiences, skills, and certifications. Explore and plan for a life after college that aligns with your values, interests, and the job market.
PREREQ: Junior standing or higher. COREQ: COID 101.
COID 490 Capstone for Digital Innovation and Design
Culminating experience to reflect on and integrate previous learning both inside and outside the major. Demonstrate and document competencies, knowledge, and habits of mind developed since starting the degree. Look ahead at applying this education to make a living and make a life after college. Prepare a resume, portfolio, and letters of recommendation needed for a successful launch.
PREREQ: COID 301, Senior standing or higher.
Certificate in Innovation and Design (Required)
COID 330 Creative Concepting
Using human-centered problem-solving methods, learn to hack your brain to achieve new levels of creativity. Use professionally proven creative processes and tools through immersive projects that relate to real-world challenges. Self-select challenge topics, conduct empathy interviews, design and prototype creative messaging, innovative new products, and viable business ideas. Gain confidence in sharing emerging ideas with others. Practice giving and receiving actionable feedback to help move beyond good in pursuit of excellence and to deliver value to the end user.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
COID 331 Growth Hacking
Learn innovative techniques to reach and engage customers at scale through a variety of digital channels to spur growth for developed concepts. Create prototype companies at the beginning of the course and learn new techniques to build upon concepts. Skills learned include but are not limited to web design, email marketing, social media, and digital advertising, while also earning digital platform certifications.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
COID 332 Analytics for Design
Develop an understanding of how to gather user needs, create journey maps, conduct user testing, turn data into insights, and produce user experiences that deliver results. By using industry-standard enterprise research and analytics tools, students will begin to understand how to collect data, visualize it, and most importantly, how to understand and apply it. The developed experiences will showcase how a user can seamlessly travel across physical and digital touchpoints to achieve their desired goal. Produced works may also serve as learner portfolio assets.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
COID 333 Emerging Technology
Gain hands-on experience working with emerging technologies including, but not limited to: virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D printing, internet of things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and voice assistance. Use these tools to develop creative solutions and learn to apply them to a variety of projects and settings.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
Certificate in Content Production (Optional)
COID 334 Agile Design
Learn the basics of graphic design taught for non-designers. Using elements and principles of design, learn how to think and create like a designer. Apply human-centered thinking to develop dynamic, engaging, and effective visual communication pieces while gaining hands-on experience with lightweight, approachable, and modern design tools. Come to listen, understand, and interpret feedback and use it as a competitive advantage.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
COID 335 Agile Audio/Visual
Learn to tell stories through visual and audio means by creating and editing in a fast, streamlined way with modern technology and applications. Gain an understanding of industry vocabulary with hands-on experience planning, coordinating, and producing short-form compelling content.
PREREQ: Sophomore standing or COID 101.
COID 336 No-Code Development
Learn to build apps and automation without code using approachable, modern, industry-standard “no-code” development tools. Learn how to ideate, prototype, create, and test apps and automation for impact. Understand the importance of user experience and how to design apps and automation that improve human interaction.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
COID 331 Growth Hacking
Learn innovative techniques to reach and engage customers at scale through a variety of digital channels to spur growth for developed concepts. Create prototype companies at the beginning of the course and learn new techniques to build upon concepts. Skills learned include but are not limited to web design, email marketing, social media, and digital advertising, while also earning digital platform certifications.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
Certificate in Creative Influence (Optional)
COID 337 Designing or Equity
Learn about the shifts happening in businesses around the world due to an increasingly diverse population. Build competencies in listening to identities at the margins and centering those experiences to design for equity and accessibility. Learn techniques for increasing adaptability and creative confidence when working with people who have different points of view.
PREREQ: Junior standing or higher or COID 101.
COID 338 Pitching Ideas
Learn to create and design pitches in nontraditional ways to create movements in teams and cultures. Understand various pitch styles and how to hone it to a personal approach rather than fitting into traditional molds. Apply different strategies to organize and design content beyond traditional powerpoint layouts. Empower ideas through design and delivery using industry-standard, modern, and approachable tools.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
COID 339 Career Hacking
Students will explore and practice proven methods for hacking into fulfilling creative careers through non-traditional networking and interviewing methods. Explore purpose and passions using reflective and introspective techniques and learn how to turn them into fulfilling work. Take control and turn the traditional job search approach on its head by taking a proactive role in designing a tailored future. Use innovative techniques and tools to hone resumes, create digital portfolios, and get interviews in competitive fields.
PREREQ: COID 101 and sophomore standing or higher.
COID 330 Creative Concepting
Using applied design thinking methods, learn techniques for gaining empathy; taking risks to have healthy, low-risk failures, and gain confidence in sharing emerging ideas with others. Develop creative problem-solving skills and empowering feedback practices while engaging in effective debate within teams in order to move beyond good, in pursuit of excellent. Learn how context (who, what, where, when, why, how) impacts design in order to develop applications that deliver value to the user.
PREREQ: COID 101 or sophomore standing or higher.
Certificate in UX Research (Optional)
UX-PRO 360 Working in the UX Space
Diverse applications of qualitative user research in public and private sectors. Relationship between usability testing, design thinking, and ethnographic inquiry. Cross-listed with UX 360, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 361 Ethical User Research
Best user research practices to protect researchers, participants, and clients complete training in human subjects research. Cross-listed with UX 361, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 362 Asking and Listening
Planning, conducting, and reporting the results of in-depth conversations and semi-structured interviews, enriching transcripts, and storytelling. Cross-listed with UX 362, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 363 Contextual Inquiry
Practice ethical observations using direct, remote, and participatory observational techniques. Discover the importance of context and the difference between what people say and what they do. Cross-listed with UX 363, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 364 Design Thinking for Better UX
Introduction to, and applications of, core design concepts including empathy and journey map concepts. Collaborate to create visualizations that translate user research into impactful implications for design. Cross-listed with UX 364, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 365 Go Deeper with Theory
Qualitative user research has deep roots in the social sciences, especially anthropology. Increase your knowledge of the conceptual foundations of user research to reach beyond superficial findings and deliver transformative insights. Cross-listed with UX 365, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 366 Communicating User Research
Utilizing the tools of user design from field notes to storytelling and visualization techniques to communicate insights of research. Universal accessibility, inclusive design, and how to avoid excluding portions of your audience. Cross-listed with UX 366, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 367 Just Enough Research
Identifying appropriate methods for diverse problems, applying multiple methods to develop more robust triangulated data, and synthesizing complex data to arrive at compelling insights. Cross-listed with UX 367, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 368 Planning a Productive Capstone
Pre-capstone project. Identify potential stakeholders, negotiate a design brief, and prepare a scope of work proposal. Identify possible sampling and recruitment strategies, explore appropriate methods, and plan a schedule to gather and analyze data and report your results in a timely manner. Cross-listed with UX 368, may be taken once for credit.
UX-PRO 469 User Research Capstone
Propose, negotiate, and conduct an independent UX research project, or assist on a faculty project. Participate across the full research process. Define objectives, select methods, manage the collection and analysis of appropriate data, and deliver impactful insights that your stakeholders value. Cross-listed with UX 469, may be taken once for credit.
Certificate in Applied Leadership (Optional)
IPS 410 Case Studies in Leadership
Introduces and analyzes effective leadership styles. Leadership practices and models are applied to case studies. !rough various forms of reading, writing, presentations, video and/or multi-media, students will apply theories to assess their own leadership style and identify styles of popular companies/people. Completion of LEAD 325 is recommended.
COREQ: Upper-division standing, or BAS305 or IPS305, or permission from instructor
LEAD 325 Foundations of Leadership
An introduction to concepts, frameworks, ideas and beliefs related to leadership. Intended to inspire students to engage in deeper self-exploration about why they lead and how they can begin to serve as a catalyst for progress in their relationships, communities and organizations.
PREREQ: Sophomore standing or higher.
LEAD 326 The Practice of Leadership
An exploration of selected concepts, frameworks, ideas and beliefs related to the art and practice of leadership. The course is intended to help students move from knowledge and awareness, to applying their learning in various contexts.
PREREQ: LEAD 325, sophomore standing or higher.
LEAD 490 Capstone in Leadership
This experiential course offers students an opportunity to practice the skills and perspectives they have learned in previous leadership courses. Students will select a team-based community or business project to organize and implement as a vehicle to demonstrate and reflect upon leadership principles. The completion of LEAD 326 is recommended.
PREREQ: LEAD 325, IPS 410, and sophomore standing. COREQ: LEAD 326.
Certificate in UX Design (Optional)
COID 350 UX Design Foundations
Learn to develop products and services by applying a user-centered approach. Learn to reduce risk and to accelerate learning using prototyping. Gain an understanding of design thinking mindsets and UX design tools that are foundational to user experience. Gain insights into the cognitive processes which drive how people interact with technology and the importance of usability over aesthetics, in product and service design.
PREREQ: Sophomore standing or higher.
COID 351 Intro to Human-Computer Interaction
Acquire an understanding of the design process in interaction design and the ways human senses play a role in the experience. Learn how to choose user interface (UI) design patterns and organize content effectively, ways to enhance the user experience of a user interface, and the application of these principles to mobile user experience design.
PREREQ: Sophomore standing or higher.
COID 352 Designing for Impact
Learn how to create products and services that people love by gaining insight into how to inject positive emotional experiences into UX designs, how to build with accessibility standards and “Universal Design” principles, and the various facets of social design.
PREREQ: Sophomore standing or higher.
COID 353 UX Design Studio
In this project-based capstone, learners will apply UX Design principles in an applied UX Design project.
PREREQ: COID 350, COID 351, sophomore standing or higher.
Data Analysis For All Certificate (Optional)
COID 268 Data Analysis I: Prepare, Process, Analyze
Learn the foundational skills necessary to source, prepare, process, and analyze data, including how to clean and organize data for analysis and complete analysis and calculations using spreadsheets and SQL. Develop an immersive understanding of the practices and processes used by data analysts to help organizations gain insights from their data.
COID 269 Data Analysis II: Visualize, Share, Act
Learn the foundational skills necessary to present the “ndings of their analyses, including how to conduct a complete analysis, share insights using tools such as spreadsheets, SQL, R programming, and data visualization. Create and publish a data analysis case study. Produce capstone deliverables that may also serve as professional portfolio assets.
PREREQ: COID268.
IT Support For All Certificate (Optional)
COID 266 IT Support I: IT Support and Computer Networking
Learn the fundamentals of day-to-day IT support, including identifying problems, troubleshooting, and debugging. Learn networking basics, including protocols, cloud computing, and practical applications of network troubleshooting.
COID 267 IT Support II: IT System Administration, Infrastructure, and Security
Learn the basics of operating systems, system administration, and IT infrastructure services necessary to manage a %eet of devices and software on premises and in the cloud. Learn IT security concepts, tools, and best practices to address threats and attacks. Produce capstone deliverables that may also serve as professional portfolio assets.
PREREQ: COID266..
Project Management For All Certificate (Optional)
COID 264 Project Management I: Start, Plan, Run
Learn foundational project management terminology and gain a deeper understanding of the role and responsibilities of a project manager. Create effective project documentation and artifacts throughout the various phases of a project. Develop an immersive understanding of the practices and processes used by project managers to lead, plan, and implement critical projects to help their organizations succeed.
COID 265 Project Management II: Apply, Execute, Deliver
Learn the foundations of Agile project management, with a focus on implementing Scrum events, building Scrum artifacts, and understanding Scrum roles. Practice strategic communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management through applied scenarios. Produce capstone deliverables that may also serve as learner portfolio assets.
PREREQ: COID 264.
Cyber Operations Certificate (Optional)
CPS 301 Information Assurance and Critical Thinking
Topics related to business needs and requirements, information assurance, information security, risk management, logic, communication and critical thinking in cyber-security or cyber-physical systems security. The course also examines the components of a comprehensive information assurance plan, day-to-day operation enterprise risk management, NIST cybersecurity framework, and NIST risk management framework.
PREREQ: Foundation of Mathematics course.
CPS 401 Defensive Security
Provides a baseline of fundamental knowledge of defensive security. Includes systems engineering, scripting, cyber-informed engineering, cyber-kill chain, cloud security, MITRE ATT&CK human elements, logging, detection, prevention, monitoring, policies, programs, and procedures at different levels of an information system. Discusses creating and assessing security architectures, including DoDAF, SABSA, and MORDA.
PREREQ: CPS 301.
CPS 402 Offensive Security
Discusses the tools and techniques used to look for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in a lawful and legitimate manner, along with the tools and techniques to strengthen security of systems. Discusses network mapping, cloud security, scripting, basic IETF protocols and analyze how they work and how they have been exploited.
PREREQ: CPS 301.
CPS 403 Recovery and Forensics
Introduces the techniques and skills needed in computer forensics and data recovery. From the use of enterprise computer forensics tools to analyze trace evidence left behind by unauthorized access.
PREREQ: CPS 301.
CPS 412 Foundational Essentials for IT Cybersecurity Practitioners
A guided course with the goal of obtaining industry relevant certification. The objective is to obtain cybersecurity certification with the core knowledge required of any cybersecurity role and provides a springboard to intermediate-level cybersecurity jobs. Students will gain knowledge and skills necessary to identify and address potential threats, attacks and vulnerabilities and establish techniques in risk management, risk mitigation, threat management and intrusion detection.
PREREQ: CPS 301 or permission from instructor