Design Innovation and Strategy Minor

College of Human Ecology

This minor is not admitting new students as of 2025-2026, and will be discontinued.

Program Description

The Department of Human Centered Design offers a minor in Design Innovation and Strategy. This minor provides students with an understanding of design thinking and practice through the production of designed artifacts. The Design Innovation and Strategy minor may be of particular interest to students from Information Science, Computer Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and other Engineering departments who are seeking design studies that compliment and may partly overlap with their technical understanding. The Design Innovation and Strategy minor is meant to help prepare students to design more holistically in response to today's complex challenges and opportunities.

Eligibility

To be considered for the Minor in Design Innovation and Strategy, students cannot be a Design and Environmental Analysis major.

Transfer Credits

Course credits from institutions other than Cornell or from academic units at Cornell other than DEA cannot be counted towards the minor in Design Innovation and Strategy.

Completing the Minor in Design Innovation and Strategy

During the semester in which the student plans to graduate, s/he must submit a completed Application to Graduate with a Minor in Design Innovation and Strategy to DEA's Academic Programs Coordinator (deaundergrad@cornell.edu). The current version of requirements for a Minor in Design Innovation and Strategy is used to evaluate the completion of the minor. If the Intention to Minor form has been submitted, the student has the option to make a request to use the earlier version of requirements in-effect at the time the Intention to Minor form was submitted to DEA. After verification by DEA that all requirements for the minor have been completed, the student's college registrar will be notified and the final transcript will indicate that a Minor in Design Innovation and Strategy was earned.