Department of Integrated Design
The curriculum of the Department of Integrated Design is comprised of foundational required courses that cultivate students’ basic research skills; major elective courses that teach professional knowledge related to communication, fashion, products and services, and digital design; and integrated design courses that teach using an interdisciplinary approach.
Course Descriptions
FAMILY ISSUES AND SOCIAL DESIGN 1 / 3 credits
This course aims to integrate knowledge from the child & family studies to understand the characteristics and issues of our developmental stages and explore solutions that respond to these issues using design methodologies.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY / 3 credits
The module discusses wide ranges of design research methodologies and critically review research methods used within the subject of human environment design.
DESIGN SEMINAR 1-1 / 1 credit
In this course, students select a research topic, learn how to define research questions, build an argument, organise literature studies, and develop it into a research proposal.
DESIGN SEMINAR 1-2 / 1 credit
This course guides students to investigate overall research trends to set the scope of their individual research and to concretely design their research by analyzing quality research papers. Cases of practical applications of design research results are also explored through case analyses and discussions on notable designers.
DESIGN SEMINAR 1-3 / 1 credit
This course guides students to investigate overall research trends to set the scope of their individual research and to concretely design their research by analyzing quality research papers. Cases of practical applications of design research results are also explored through case analyses and discussions on notable designers.
DESIGN SEMINAR 1-4 / 1 credit
This course guides students to investigate overall research trends to set the scope of their individual research and to concretely design their research by analyzing quality research papers. Cases of practical applications of design research results are also explored through case analyses and discussions on notable designers.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 2 / 3 credits
The module aims to study the basics of qualitative research and gain understanding of its process through practical practice.
STUDIES ON INTEGRATED DESIGN / 3 credits
This course explores the overlap and potential collaboration between design and other academic disciplines (e.g. psychology, business, science, and technology).
INTEGRATED DESIGN PROJECT PLANNING / 3 credits
This course introduces the recent issues and trends in design practice and research. Students will explore design research/projects from integrated design perspective.
FAMILY ISSUES AND SOCIAL DESIGN 1 / 3 credits
This module aims to help student gain their design thinking skills towards making social innovation and seek opportunities to apply gained knowledge through a new design research project.
STUDIES IN DESIGN METHODOLOGY / 3 credits
This module offers opportunity to explore design research methods and study around creative design development and the process.
STUDIES IN DESIGN CULTURE / 3 credits
This module emphasise the important role of design for interpretating the human living and recreation of culture.
COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON DESIGN CULTURES / 3 credits
This module offers opportunity to study and gain creative interpretation skills against changing culture. It gives overview of east and west art activities in a chronological order and introduces wide ranges of different perspectives in order for students to gain their own standpoint towards design culture.
THEORY OF DESIGN / 3 credits
This module explore design movements post to modernism and studies on how design has influenced periodic social & cultural attributes, its reciprocal relationship with other disciplines, and changing factors.
SPECIAL ISSUES IN DESIGN AESTHETICS / 3 credits
This module studies the concept of aesthetics based on philosophical and cultural theories and explores theoretical content for design practice.
DESIGN MANAGEMENT / 3 credits
This module explores future plan for design industry and its challenges from business perspective.
SPECIAL TOPICS IN VISUAL MERCHANDISING / 3 credits
This module studies theories of visual merchandising and case studies for consumer product and services.
DESIGN CRITICISM / 3 credits
The module aims to help student gain critical thinking skills against design issues/problems through publication practice.
STUDIES ON DESIGN TRENDS / 3 credits
The module practices planning and analysis around trends under topics related to mega trends and lifestyle.
FASHION COLOR AND DESIGN / 3 credits
This course introduces color theories. Students will explore the fashion color image and its application for the fashion business.
EXHIBITION COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN / 3 credits
This course explores a holistic theories and practice of exhibition design as communication medium. Students will introduce to the exhibition design theories including presentation methods, visitor studies, evaluation methodologies in both physical and virtual exhibition domain. With acquired knowledge, students will propose exhibition communication strategies through visitor studies, exhibition case studies with analysis and evaluation.
ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGN / 3 credits
This course explores a holistic theories and practice of environmental graphic design such as wayfinding, signage, super graphics both in physical and virtual environment. Through the course, students will propose visual communication design strategies in environment design.
INFORMATION DESIGN / 3 credits
This course studies the means to effectively structure, hierarchize, visualize, and systematically deliver information. Innovative information design approaches are explored through empirical studies based on theoretical and conceptual reviews. This course is directed toward promoting students’ competence as experts in information design.
STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION DESIGN / 3 credits
This course focuses on pursuing design research specific to the field of visual design. Students are guided to review quality research papers, discover research topics of individual interest, design appropriate research plans and methods, and execute design research in practice. This course is directed toward promoting students’ ability as academic researchers in the field of visual design.
FASHION COLLABORATION / 3 credits
This course introduces the methods of collaboration and explores the possibility of fashion collaboration through case studies.
GENERATIVE DESIGN / 3 credits
This course is an introduction to generative design methodology, particularly Generative Adversary Network. We study the theoretical basis and conduct software implementation of GAN applications.
DESIGN THINKING AND PROCESS / 3 credits
The module explores and studies around design thinking and its processes; particularly exploring the limitation of user-centred design. Moreover, it offer opportunities to experience and explore more recent and diverse design thinking.
SEVICE DESIGN / 3 credits
Students learn the theories and methodologies related to service design, explore new research issues and conduct research through design to develop human-centred services that generate environmental, social and economic values.
DIRECTED RESEARCH / 0 credit
The module requires presentation of design research work based on review of literature and other scholarly works.
DESIGN RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION / 3 credits
In this course, students will be introduced to systems thinking, apply this knowledge to address societal problems and explore new research topics in design for social innovation.
DIGITAL FABRICATION DESIGN / 3 credits
This course pursue a hands-on understanding of digital fabrication design paradigm via 3D parametric modelling and 3D printing.
STUDIES IN DESIGN PROCESS / 3 credits
This course introduces the whole design process exploring various design process factors and strategies.
FASHION AND TECHNOLOGY / 3 credits
This course explores the expandability of fashion through the adaptation of digital technology for industrial and academic insights.
FASHION IMAGE DESIGN / 3 credits
This course introduces the image analysis methods to investigate the contemporary fashion image.
FASHION AND ART / 3 credits
This course enables the students to explore aesthetics and create designs through case studies on combining art and fashion.
STUDIES IN FASHION ACCESSORY DESIGN / 3 credits
This course explores the new materials and techniques of fashion accessories based on historical research and case studies.
SPECIAL TOPICS IN FASHION DESIGN PROCESS / 3 credits
This course explores the various fashion design processes depending on socio-cultural and technological trends.
MEDIA AND VISUALIZATION / 3 credits
This course involves in-depth research on visualization and specialized representation forms of information with regard to the structure of information, the visual system, and information media. Visual information and their deliverance on various media reflecting the characteristics of the contents, the users, and the media are considered. This course is directed toward reinforcing students’ capacity as information design experts.
STUDIES IN DESIGN OF BRAND / 3 credits
Brand design entails planning, organizing, and expressing the personality and the character of a country, a group, or an individual that differentiate from others. Brands continuously transform to cope with the changes in management structures and societal trends. To develop students’ knowledge and ability in identity design, this course guides them in analyzing brand design cases and papers through presentations and discussions, and conducting design projects and research based on a comprehensive review of brand design.
IMAGE AND LANGUAGE / 3 credits
This course affords the students the opportunity to study and analyze images that function as a language to accurately deliver information. Also, considering recent advancements in media technology, students are encouraged to explore and discuss innovative representation means of sensory language delivered through the five senses as well as ways to objectify and publicize visual language. This course involves analyzing the factors that constitute visual image and practicing the development of visual language from the planning stage to the realization stage with regard to structuring and delivering information.
DESIGN SEMINAR 2 / 1 credit
This course guides students to investigate overall research trends to set the scope of their individual research and to concretely design their research by analyzing quality research papers. Cases of practical applications of design research results are also explored through case analyses and discussions on notable designers.
DESIGN SEMINAR 3~5 / 1 credit
This module support student to further develop their individual research project through exploring design research and related issues.
STUDIES IN COLOR, SCIENCE AND CULTURE / 3 credits
This course introduce the color theories and methods to investigate the color for the cultural and industrial insights.
SPECIAL TOPICS IN PLASTIC ARTS / 3 credits
The module explores theories of plastic art through reviewing the case studies from the perspectives of philosophy, aesthetics, and sociology.
THEORY OF DESIGN ADMINISTRATION / 3 credits
This course introduces various laws related to design, such as the Copyright Act, the Literature Promotion Act, the Environmental Framework Installation Act, the Sales and Distribution Act, and the Art Museum-related Act.
DESIGN MARKETING STRATEGY / 3 credits
From a design perspective, it is a corporate activity to thoroughly investigate and detect consumers' needs and reflect them in the development of new products to provide consumers' desired products to the market and promote sales. This is a change in the market that is subdivided into marketing concepts and studies the concepts and methods of design marketing.
SENSIBILITY ENGINEERING AND DESIGN / 3 credits
It is intended to quantify human sensibility to judge and evaluate qualitatively and use it for design work using engineering techniques, and it learns and understands what emotional engineering is and how it is used in design work.
DESIGN AND SEMIOTICS / 3 credits
This course is on semiotics theory, which identifies externally represented morphological properties as meaningful symbols in various design fields, and explore real-world examples to empirically study them.
STUDIES IN INTERACTION DESIGN / 3 credits
This course investigates the theoretical basis and the applications of interactions between human and digital environment. We implement screen-type interaction using digital prototyping tools.
STUDIES IN FASHION ILLUSTRATION / 3 credits
This course investigates the theoretical basis and the cases of the contemporary fashion illustration to establish the students' perspective on the artworks.
PRODUCT AND SERVICE DESIGN / 3 credits
The aim of this module is to help student gain their knowledge and skills around design research, particularly that is oriented for product and service-related design practice. The core learning outcome is to increase your awareness to design research methods and related skills. Teaching activities will allow students to study and develop a depth of knowledge towards building design research methodologies, languages, methods, knowledge and skills necessary for product and service design practices.
STUDY OF IDENTITY DESIGN / 3 credits
Identity design is the collection of all elements that expresses the identity of a country, an enterprise, a group, or an individual. It continues to evolve to respond to various changes from being strictly visual to communicating through multisensory channels. This course guides students in presenting and discussing identity design case analyses and in-depth paper reviews and conducting a design project as well as an academic research based on comprehensive analyses on identity design. This course is directed toward promoting students’ ability as identity designers.
SMART DESIGN / 3 credits
This course explores the design applications of artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning technology, through its software implementation.
STUDIES IN USER INTERFACE DESIGN / 3 credits
This course introduces state-of-the-art theories and applications of user interface design to approach the field of user interface study from diversified perspectives.
DIRECTED RESEARCH 2 / 0 credit
The module assist individual research project and its detail plan.