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With more than 40 majors to choose from, our curriculum offers you unparalleled opportunity to pick your path and find the right fit for you, whether you’re interested in Natural Sciences and Mathematics or Social Sciences, or Humanities like History and English are more your style. 

Many of our majors also offer opportunities for internships and co-ops both locally and nationally, study abroad and service learning, where you make real-world impact on your community.

If you’re not sure which major is right for you, you’re not alone. Many incoming students aren’t sure with path is the right one—which may be why many of our first-year students choose our Exploratory Studies Program. Through Exploratory Studies, you’ll learn more about what each major has to offer, and whether it’s right for you. 

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Why study Innovation and Design Thinking?

The certificate of transdisciplinary innovation and design thinking offers students a formal pathway to learn about and apply design thinking and innovation mindsets, tools, and applications across multiple disciplines and industries. This cross-college certificate brings together multiple courses and experiential learning opportunities within the innovation space, and offers students flexibile pathways for choosing courses and experiences focused on different types and applications of innovation and design thinking.

This certificate includes coursework and experiences in these focus areas:

  • Exposure to various definitions of innovation, types of innovation, and their applications
  • Cultivating and promoting adaptable, resilient mindsets that enable creative problem solving
  • Developing confidence in tackling complex challenges with high degrees of ambiguity
  • Introducing a variety of problem-solving frameworks and tools that can be applied to diverse challenges
  • Learning to work in cross-disciplinary innovation environments and teams
  • Understanding and applying non-linear and iterative approaches to problem solving
  • Casting vision and inspiring others to pursue innovation through speculative designs, scenarios, and approaches 

 

Career Possibilities

Rather than focusing on a specific discipline or subject-matter area, transdisciplinary innovation and design thinking frameworks skills can be leveraged and applied across a variety of fields, topics, and industries, making them applicable to a wide variety of career paths. Innovation and design thinking skills are directly applicable in careers where understanding systems and developing new solutions are core, such as consulting, strategy, insight development, and design research. 

Admission Requirements

This certificate is open to all University of Cincinnati undergraduate students. 

Accreditation

The University of Cincinnati and all regional campuses are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

Quick Facts

CERT1 in Innovation and Design Thinking

Full-Time Program Duration

2.0 Years

Location

West Campus

Interest Areas:

Business

Design

Engineering

Contact

2900 Reading Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45206
Phone: (513) 505-0130
Aaron Bradley
aaron.bradley@uc.edu