Earning Criteria

• Trans-disciplinary and Team-based Collaboration: Students learned to collaborate across disciplines, including working with partners and living experts from various fields and backgrounds on real-world projects that support social innovation.
• Anti-racist and Decolonial Perspectives: Students learned to use frameworks to understand and interrogate their disciplines within broader histories of oppression and apply them to design a more humane and equitable future.
• Community Values, Social Change and Advocacy: Students demonstrated an understanding of cultural context, stakeholder values, and conditions inherent to the topic.
• Design Research and Ethics: Students used multiple perspectives while conducting an ethical, participatory research approach that promotes co-learning and co-creation.
• A Culture of Equity-Minded Designers: Students collaborated on applied projects that focused on real-world issues and became critical and reflective social change advocates. They used community-engaged research and design processes that led to inclusive and equitable social project outcomes.