These courses are special topical electives, often taught in new or experimental subjects, and rotate frequently. The following will be offered in fall 2015. Design Social Change: Graphic Designers can play an important role in helping to solve complex social problems. Sure, designers can make things look good, but we also bring a unique “design thinking” process to each project that allows us to design solutions to problems more quickly. In this course, you will consider the designer’s role in society through personal and group projects that will require you to directly engagement with other people. You will immerse yourself in each project as part of a process that will help you better-understand your audience and how design can make a positive impact. Readings from designers, activists, social scientists, and innovators and will introduce you to the philosophical underpinnings of this topic and strategies that can help your projects succeed. You will also focus on user experience as a way to design behavior change, which is an essential aspect of “Designing for Social Change.” You will emerge from this course with a toolbox of problem-solving strategies that will energize your future collaborations and will help to prepare you for design leadership.