Courses
Our Courses
Fall • 3 credits
Examine how the physical design and management of workplaces impacts both the health and performance of knowledge workers and also an organization’s overall business outcomes. Learn the latest trends in various workplace settings.
Fall • 3 credits
Active participation from local and global leads, industry, and healthcare providers, students examine how well-designed environments and policies empower people, organizations, and communities to achieve their health-related operational and business objectives.
Fall • 3 credits
Designers must be accountable for the impact of the environment on the people who experience it. Well-constructed evaluations are a means to objectively assess whether we have achieved the goals we intended. This course illustrates the theoretical roots of evaluation and provides guidance on conducting building and landscape evaluation research.
Fall • 4 credits
Balancing the needs of patients experiencing acute health issues with the systematic needs of a variety of medical professionals requires spatial environments that must nurture the human spirit. In this studio, students will utilize spatial constructs that establish code-compliance, critical adjacencies, workflow circulation, and formulate health care facilities that employ evidence-based design principles.
Spring • 1 credit
This course provides students the opportunity to learn directly from invited industry speakers with expertise in a spectrum of industries that link health, wellness, senior living with hospitality and design thinking. The speakers share their views on business, managerial, career, and other critical industry-related issues.
Spring • 3 credits
Engage in a dialogue among design, health, medicine, policy, engineering, and management disciplines on innovations in healthcare through multidisciplinary practice. Learn about the latest concepts of evidence-based design (EBD) and healing environments, discuss practical applications, and have the option to gain skills for Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC).
Other Recommended Courses
Fall, Summer • 3 credits
This course provides a broad overview of design applied various disciplines, scales, and problem contexts, and how design can offer and alternative, and often more human-centered perspective towards solving the problems around us.
Fall, Summer • 3 credits
Environmental Psychology is an interdisciplinary field concerned with how the physical environment and human behaviors interrelate. Most of the course focuses on how residential environments and urban and natural settings affect human health and well-being.
Fall • 3 credits
Drawing from public health, environmental psychology, design, urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture, we examine how the physical environment influences health and health behaviors. We consider various contexts from rooms and buildings to parks and cities.
Fall • 3 credits
Introduces human-factor considerations and views the ambient environment as a support system that should promote human efficiency, productivity, health, and safety. Emphasizes the implications for planning, design, and management of settings and facilities.
Fall • 3 credits
Students will develop skills in preparing a program while keeping in mind the potential audiences. This course emphasizes the role of social science research and environment - behavior interaction in facility planning and in the design process.
Fall • 3 credits
Implications of human physical and physiological characteristics and limitations on the design of settings, products, and tasks. An introduction to engineering anthropometry, biomechanics, control/display design, work physiology, and motor performance. Includes practical exercises and field project work.