CMS.362 | Spring 2016 | Undergraduate

Civic Media Codesign Studio

Course Description

This course is a service-learning, project-based studio course that focuses on collaborative design of civic media. Students will work in diverse teams with community partners to create civic media projects grounded in real-world community needs. This course covers co-design and lean UX methods, and best practices for …
This course is a service-learning, project-based studio course that focuses on collaborative design of civic media. Students will work in diverse teams with community partners to create civic media projects grounded in real-world community needs. This course covers co-design and lean UX methods, and best practices for including communities in iterative stages of project ideation, design, prototyping, testing, launch, and stewardship. Students should have an interest in collaboration with community-based organizations.
Learning Resource Types
Presentation Assignments with Examples
A black and white graphic that reads, "Hire ourselves! Worker-owned cooperatives."
Students in this course partnered with worker-owned cooperatives to develop innovative strategies for social transformation. (Image courtesy of Alyce Santoro on flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA.)