Undergraduate Courses

The Department of Integrated Design curriculum is comprised of foundational courses that teach basic modeling skills and principles necessary for design planning and execution; more intensive courses that teach professional knowledge related to products, fashion, and visual design based on design philosophies and methodologies; courses that teach knowledge applicable to various design fields; and practicum courses that provide students with hands-on training to develop their professional design skills.

Design-based Knowledge	Common Basic Subjects	Integrated Design Field		Specific Major Field
		Integrated planning+ Modeling	Integrated technology	Fashion Design	Communication Design	Product Design
Introduction to Design	Observation & Expression	Design Research	2D Digital Design	Fashion Illustration	Basic Communication Design	Basic Product Design
History of Modern Design	Design Materials	Integrated Design Planning	Photo and Video Design	Surface Design for Fashion	Typography Design	3D Digital Design
Design Trend	Light and Color Design	Visual Merchandising	Interaction Design	Basic Fashion Design	Brand Design	Advanced Product Design
Design Aesthetics		Integrated Design Studio for Degree Show 1	Interactive Media Design	Digital Pattern Design	Information Design	Furniture /Consumer Product Design
Design Business	Design Internship	Integrated Design Studio for Degree Show 2	User Experience and Interface Design	Fashion Design	Advertising Design	Design for Sustainability
Design and Culture				Digital Fashion Design	Communication Design	Product-Service System Design

 

Course Descriptions

Design and Culture / 3 credits

The goal of this program is to teach students how to understand modern design and how it is changing by teaching about various design concepts.

Introduction to Design / 3 credits

Teaches basic design theories, characteristics of various design fields, and modern design trends to broaden students’ understanding of human-oriented design.

History of Modern Design / 3 credits

Teaches 20th-century design from a historical perspective and explores the relationship between changes in the sociocultural environment and design as well as their meaning through examples from various design fields.

Design Trend / 3 credits

Explores contemporary paradigms and trends; how they change with politics, the economy, society, and culture; and predicts future design trends by analyzing consumption trends, lifestyle changes, and their relevance to various design fields.

Design Aesthetics / 3 credits

Teaches how aesthetic concepts are formed by social and cultural factors to enable students to understand and evaluate design.

Design Business / 3 credits

Teaches students through theory and case studies how to identify business opportunities as designers based on an understanding of the overall business environment and how to develop design, marketing, and business strategies around them.

Observation & Expression / 3 credits

Teaches basic skills for analyzing subjects by identifying their characteristics, expressing them visually, and conducting various modeling activities based on those observations.

Design Materials / 3 credits

This course introduces a diverse range of design materials and explores concepts of form and surface through hands-on experimental projects engaging various materials. In-depth discussion about students’ work, including concepts, materials, form, and technical choices, is integral to the course.

Light and Color Design / 3 credits

Teaches color characteristics and relevant color-related sensibilities through theory and practice to help students develop the ability to effectively use color in various design fields and explore culture as expressed through color.

Design Internship / 3 credits

Students work in major-related businesses during vacation periods to link their academic studies with real-world applications.

Design Research / 3 credits

Teaches about the entire design planning process, from idea development to commercialization, and related methods to teach students the innovative design planning skills they need to engage in integrated design.

Integrated Design Planning / 3 credits

Enables students to conduct integrated design planning, including for brands and concepts, by teaching basic integrated design concepts and methods, how to comprehensively plan and execute design, and how to conduct marketing and business in various product, fashion, and visual fields. Prerequisite: at least two major courses.

Visual Merchandising / 3 credits

Teaches the purpose and process of visual merchandising design, which is an integrated design marketing activity, and provides students with opportunities to plan and implement visual marketing design elements in commercial spaces that align with product planning and sales strategies.

Integrated Design Studio for Degree Show 1 / 4 credits

Through an integrated approach to design, students will plan, develop, and produce graduation projects individually or as a group, as well as comprehensively plan an exhibition for effective communication of their work. *Prerequisite: Integrated Design Planning (formerly Integrated Design Studio).

Integrated Design Studio for Degree Show 2 / 4 credits

Students complete their graduation project through an integrated approach and conduct exhibition design and promotion for it. Students will experience the overall design process, giving them the foundational skills of an integrated designer. *Prerequisite: Integrated Design Studio for Degree Show 1.

2D Digital Design / 3 credits

Students will explore relevant 2D graphic tools (such as Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign) and conduct design exercises and projects to cultivate his/her creative ability to utilize the digital tools to the design practice.

Photo and Video Design / 3 credits

Teaches image and video planning and design techniques that serve as essential tools for many design processes and how to communicate through images to improve students’ design capabilities.

Interaction Design / 3 credits

Designs and services are gradually being integrated and dematerialized while intangible interactions between people and their environments and related services are being redesigned. Based on an understanding of these environmental changes, students will develop their ability to plan, develop, and produce integrated, interactive services and products.

User Experience and Interface Design / 3 credits

Teaches about the relationship between humans and objects and how interfaces enable interactions between them and provides students with opportunities to apply their knowledge by designing interfaces for various products and systems.

Fashion Illustration / 3 credits

Teaches practical creative expression methods in line with design characteristics and fashion sensibilities and in various media. Students learn various expression techniques of fashion illustration according to the proportion of the human body and the characteristics of the material.

Surface Design for Fashion / 3 credits

Teaches fashion material planning theory and fashion design execution through craft-style modeling using various materials and processing techniques. Students learn various ways of using materials and how to broaden the scope of their modeling work.

Basic Fashion Design / 3 credits

Teaches basic fashion design skills through studies on foundational fashion design theories and concepts, such as how to make patterns and choose fabrics and supporting materials, techniques needed to make clothes, and how to develop and produce creative fashion designs.

Digital Pattern Design / 3 credits

This course cultivates fashion design capabilities by learning creative pattern design methods based on virtual fitting systems. Students acquire basic knowledge of digital fashion design through digital pattern design.

Fashion Design / 3 credits

Teaches advanced fashion design methodology to develop divergent thinking and creative fashion design. This course deals with making differential fashion design concepts, organizing and developing their fashion design collections.

Digital Fashion Design / 3 credits

Teaches how to use computers during each stage of the fashion design process, including design, image creation, fashion illustration, schematization, and DTP planning, and other digital elements of fashion design.

Basic Communication Design / 3 credits

In this foundational communication design course, students will explore design elements and principles while actually engaging in comprehensive communication design exercises and projects to convey ideas and information using words and images.

Typography Design / 3 credits

Teaches the function of typography changes according to the characteristics of the information being conveyed and surrounding images based on theoretical studies about how the form and function of typographical characters serve as communication tools and provides students with practical design typography opportunities to express information using various visual media.

Brand Design / 3 credits

This course teaches about brand and communication design and how to design identities for precise brand communication through theory and practice, including developing new brands based on real-world social needs research.

Information Design / 3 credits

The course explores the concepts and principles of information design. This course deals with the organization and analyzation of data, and the concepts and methods of visualizing information using information structure and visual systems. Students will work on projects which communicate complex information through visual elements dealing with a wide range of media and contexts.

Advertising Design / 3 credits

This course teaches how to plan, visually express, and deliver public service and commercial advertisements by analyzing real-world examples and develops students’ strategic planning and visual expression abilities to enable them to deliver advertisement messages by teaching them about the characteristics of contemporary advertising media and practices related to each medium.

Communication Design / 3 credits

This is a comprehensive communication design course in which students will freely conduct creative design projects involving visual image integration to grow their portfolios to support them in their future professions.

Basic Product Design / 3 credits

Teaches basic product design techniques by having students designing various products based on product design principles and consumer wants and needs.

3D Digital Design / 3 credits

Offers project-centered education that teaches how to digitally design products and use prototyping technologies, such as 3D CAD.

Advanced Product Design / 3 credits

Teaches creative and experimental product planning, design, and commercialization based on an understanding of the complete design process. *Prerequisite: Basic Product Design

Furniture/Consumer Product Design / 3 credits

Provides students with the opportunity to design various products, such as furniture, equipment, tableware, and lighting, that are used in daily life based on an understanding of contemporary culture; teaches students about different types of furniture and their characteristics; and provides students with hands-on training to enable them to understand the structure, form, and production methods of furniture and household goods and develop the ability to design creative and experimental furniture and household products.

Design for Sustainability / 3 credits

Introduces how design helps create a sustainable society by examining the unsustainable cultures and activities of contemporary societies, exploring the cases of sustainable design, and presenting design interventions that deal with the social and environmental problems.

Product-Service System Design / 3 credits

Teaches product-service system concepts and their real-world application, how such systems are designed, and related methods and tools through experiments and projects. This is an interdisciplinary course that teaches and uses knowledge from various fields, including design, engineering, business management, and marketing.