Academics / DescriptionsPRDV 300: Designing Your Life (also DSGN 300) (1 Unit)
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Prerequisites
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What if you approached your life as a series of design projects? What if there were a class to help you explore the bigger issues of finding your way to a career you’ll love, and space to work on crafting a total life that feels “like you”? Inspired by Stanford’s wildly popular class of the same name, this course includes seminar-style discussions, role-playing, short writing assignments, hands-on making, guest speakers, and individual mentoring and coaching. Small group discussions will be held during a separate lab time of each team’s choosing.
Curious to learn more? Check out this video created by Designing Your Life alums.
Registration Requirements
Open to all juniors and seniors of any major; no prerequisites. Enrollment is limited and we strive to create a robust class across a range of majors and backgrounds.
To register, please submit this form in order to share some details about yourself—what classes you have most enjoyed and why, your major, any prior design experience (which is not required), maybe a few hopes & fears about your future, and anything else you'd like to tell us. Feel free to share this info with us through a sketch, video, audio file—whatever helps you best express these things most easily and authentically. The form allows for attachments
Thanks for your interest in Designing Your Life!
Required Texts
There are two required books for the course. They will be available on reserve at the main library if you prefer not to purchase them:
- Creative Confidence, by Tom & David Kelley
ISBN: 978-0385349369 - Designing Your Life: How to Build a Joyful, Well-lived Life, by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
ISBN: 978-1101875322