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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2020-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2023-2024

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Requisites

Exclusion

Enrolment rules

This unit code is restricted to M1290 Master of Business, M1277 Master of Communication, M1266 Master of International Affairs and Security, M1194, Master of Public Policy, G1084 Graduate Diploma in Design Thinking and Service Innovation, G1071 Graduate Diploma in Web Communication, and C1146 Graduate Certificate in Design Thinking. Students undertaking this unit as an elective in another course should enrol in GRD5031.

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Learning outcomes

1.

Research a range of design thinking tools, strategies and methodologies for a specific purpose;

2.

Critically engage design thinking theory and its processes to analyse, interpret and evaluate social and commercial service processes and products;

3.

Apply design thinking tools and processes, holistic and human‐centred methodologies toward redefining social and commercial issues;

4.

Contribute substantial creative and strategic human‐centred ideas towards innovating social and commercial problems;

5.

Skilfully apply effective communicative techniques for working with clients and stakeholders;

6.

Recognise that design thinking plays an essential role in addressing complex issues and developing innovations for social and commercial sectors around the globe

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Additional information

Unit content:This unit will: Engage students in researching a range of design thinking processes and tools for identifying and deconstructing project issue/s for client projects (ULO 1/6). Aquire skills for analysing, interpreting and evaluating how to approach complex commercial and societal issues (ULO 2/6); Adopt creative, strategic and empathetic methods for generating human‐centred ideas towards making innovative outcomes for social and commercial problems (ULO 3/4/6); Develop design strategies for testing project ideas and concepts to enable effective outcomes to be reached for client projects (ULO 3/4/6); and Deliver professional industry standard presentations for demystifying projects issues and explaining potential concepts to clients and stakeholders of social or commercial complex projects (ULO 5/6).