COGST 1112

Change-making: Designing Healthy & Hospitable Environments

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2021-2022.

Designing Human-Centered, Healthy and Hospitable Environments is a three-week course examining design innovations and some impacts on management/operations in hospitality, communication, business, healthcare, and senior housing. During this course students will learn how design impacts organizations and every aspect of daily life. Using case studies, familiar examples, and interactions with a variety of leaders from design, healthcare and hospitality fields, students will engage with design thinking and explore new career pathways.

When Offered Winter, Summer.

• Understand the relationship between health, hospitality, and design.
• Identify characteristics of service design.
• Commit to design excellence and socially responsible design.
• Explain basic ideas involved with the process of "design thinking".
• Describe some ways hospitality ideas can improve the design of services in healthcare.

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