Introduction
Overview
Innovative companies today (large or small) strive for excellence to create the next breakthrough innovation - whether that be to advance technology, stay competitive in the market place, or to provide positive change for society. To achieve this, companies need to maintain their competitive edge, employing talented professionals with ideas and vision, coupled with the skills to innovate with confidence. We believe that Design Thinking is a powerful process that when mastered will empower our professional learners to unlock their creative potential to generate novel ideas and to translate these ideas into tangible and impactful outputs for innovation
This course has been carefully designed to advance your knowledge of Design Thinking, working with confidence to generate convincing ideas, provide you with the opportunity to apply Design Thinking in practise with a company, improve your opportunity of job success, through the building of your professional skills and innovation design portfolio, and provide you with the ‘know how’ to develop your long term career as a creative professional.
Course structure
The Design Thinking MDes is made up of three components: a formal taught component comprising five modules 40%, Group projects 20%, Individual project 40%.
Example modules
The MDes comprises five assessed modules providing students with insight and skills in many aspects of design, focusing on design, enterprise, technology, and management.
Compulsory
Consumer Trends
Design, Technology, and Prototyping
Whole System Design
Creative Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Project Management Introduction
Individual project
The individual thesis project offers you the opportunity to develop their research capability, depth of understanding and ability to provide world-class solutions to real problems in design strategy and leadership.
Group project
The group project experience is highly valued by both students and prospective employers. You will work in teams to solve an industrial problem. The project applies technical knowledge and provides training in teamwork and the opportunity to develop non-technical aspects of the taught programme. If you study part-time you can prepare a dissertation on an agreed topic in place of the group project.
Future career
Successful students have turned their dreams into a reality developing diverse and rewarding careers in product, manufacturing and service industries in the private sector, public sector organisations such as environmental protection agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and design, environmental and business consultancies.
Entry requirements
Minimum requirements: UK first or second class Honours degree in a relevant subject; an equivalent international qualification; relevant work experience with a degree below second class Honours. Please contact us if you do not meet our formal entry requirements.
ATAS Certificate
Students requiring a visa to study in the UK may need to apply for an ATAS certificate to study this course.
