What is a Well-Designed Life?
What is a well-designed life? How do you shape your tomorrow or find a career where you can thrive? Inspired by Stanford's Designing Your Life curriculum, these interactive courses will teach you principles for designing a fulfilling career. Take any of the courses below, or both, to design your next steps. Please reach out if you have any questions about this curriculum and would like to learn more!
MDIS 3600: Designing Your Tomorrow
This professional development course uses a Design Thinking approach to help students develop a point of view about their life and career. The course focuses on introducing design thinking, integrating work and worldviews, and developing habits of thought and action that support life-long vocation formation. The course includes small group discussions, in-class activities, short writing assignments, guest speakers, and individualized mentoring.
Open to juniors and seniors in all majors. Offered in the Spring Semester.
Satisfies G.E. area E. (2 units)
Student Feedback:
"Great class helps those students that are about to graduate and are unsure as of to that career path they wanna take." - Spring 2020 participant
"I have very much enjoyed this class despite not knowing what to originally expect. I have a learned a great deal about "real life" and plan on applying many of my learnings from this class to my life, especially in regards to school and work." - Spring 2020 participant
Updated: November 08, 2023