COGST 1112

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  • Schedule of Classes - October 23, 2025 7:07PM EDT

COGST 1112
Change-making: Designing Healthy and Hospitable Environments

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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.


Distribution Requirements (SBA-AG)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SU, 2024SU, 2024WI, 2023SU

Learning Outcomes

  • 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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Syllabi: none

  •   Winter Session.  Combined with: DEA 1112

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1159 COGST 1112   LEC 001

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    • MTWRF
    • Jan 2 - Jan 16, 2026

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  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous

    This Winter Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/.
    Enrollment open to: Precollege Studies Online program students. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/precollege/program/online.