B.Design (Hons.) Global Design Programme

Year 1 – PART I

KU Core Courses

KU core courses are curated to ensure a common graduate profile across all schools of the university. These courses have been selected to give our students essential skills for their professional growth.

Professional Communication

This course aims to engage with various types of communication skills and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal communication with accuracy and efficacy. It also develops verbal and written presentation skills.

Leadership LAB

This course aims to learn and adopt cross-functional leadership roles and responsibilities. It also provides a strong focus on creating core leadership skills that contribute effectively to the entire life ecosystem.

Programme Core Courses

Programme core courses are fundamental to skill and concept building in disciplinary contexts. Each department has carefully curated these sections with a focus on technological and conceptual future industry directions.

History of Design and Art

This course is built to enable students to identify various important and landmark objects from the history of design & art and understand the contexts.

Material Exploration

This course introduces you to various kinds of materials their attributes, characteristics, and properties. It also aims at developing the ability and techniques to handle various materials.

Digital Lab

This course exposes students to various digital ecosystems to illustrate their designs and enable them to use appropriate resources.

Drawing Lab (Observation Based)

This course aims to provide students with a range of drawing and observation techniques to generate the requisite skills to observe, understand and manipulate design drawings.

Fundamentals of Design – 1

Through this course, students understand the conceptual approach towards the unique characteristics of each of the Elements and Principles of Design and their underlying behaviours, interactions and dynamics.

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Year 1 – PART II

KU Core Courses

Thinking Skills

The course introduces the student to the methods of lateral thinking, critical thinking, and analytical skills to solve problems and take creative decisions. The course aims to equip students with a diverse range of skills including synthesis, analysis, teamwork, time management, and problem-solving, among others.

Programme Core Courses

Global Culture and Trends

The course aims to understand and appreciate various global cultures, and trends and apply them in practice as a designer with social responsibility.

Design Drawing Lab

This course aims to develop design through technical drawing techniques.

Observing Culture and Environment

The aim of this course is to understand the sociocultural aspects of communities and acquire the conceptual ability to document social practices that shape environments.

Material Techniques

This course aims to shape different materials by working with various tools and machines that are used in manufacturing/ making processes.

Fundamentals of Design – 2

This course aims to develop a deeper engagement with form, space, gestalt principles and their interconnectedness within systems of perception.

Integrated Design Project

This course aims to apply basic elements and principles of design by processing the context and solving problems.

Discover Design in India

This course aims to experience the diversity of Indian crafts, materials, techniques, and designs to develop sensitivity toward the application of the same in contemporary designs.

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Year 2 – PART I

KU Core Courses

Professional Ethics

The course provides students with the concepts, methods, and theories needed to analyze moral problems in a variety of professions and workplaces. The course aims to describe the accepted principles and standards of conduct of moral duties and virtues as applied to an organization. Professional ethics is necessary to reveal, sustain and enhance certain basic human values.

Programme Core Courses

Human Behaviour and Design Psychology

This course aims to expose students to a range of psychological theories that illustrate human perception in the context of design.

Experiential Learning Seminar -1

This course aims to disseminate the experience earned at the partner university/ institution both academically and through socio-cultural interactions to expand the understanding of cultural transitions in global design, learning and practice.

Global Experiential Learning Seminar- 1 (Australia)

The aim of this course is to disseminate the experience earned at the partner university/ institution both academically and through socio-cultural interactions to expand the understanding of cultural transitions in global design, learning and practice.

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Year 2 – PART II

KU Core Courses

International language – LEVEL 1

The students will have a basic grasp of formal and informal conversations and be able to read, write and understand the language. The language preference will be given to French and German/Spanish.

German

Italian

Spanish

French

Elective Courses

Programme Elective – 1 (any one)

Interior Space Technology

This course aims to develop an understanding of the basic technical issues related to Interior Spaces

Materials Technology and Processes-1

The aim of this course is to understand the application of basic materials and their unique characteristics and properties.

Surface Adornments

This course aims to understand pattern-making techniques, sewing & finishing of garments.

Programme Elective – 2 (any one)

Representation and Documentation 1

This course aims to develop basic representation concepts and an understanding of drawing communication in the Interior design and styling industry.

Technical Design Drawing 1

This course aims to gain insight into visual tools such as radii manipulation to generate emotive qualities in forms as well as form integration.

Fashion Atelier

This course aims to engage with topics of line, form, shape, texture & colour through the lens of Fashion.

KU Open Elective – 1

KU open elective is a unique initiative by Karnavati University aimed and building a transdisciplinary culture. Extending our focus on the choice-based learning model, these courses offer opportunities to engage with subjects outside their specialisations.

Programme Core Courses

Ergonomics and Human Factor

This course aims to apply knowledge of Ergonomics in user-centric design solutions and recognize the human-machine relationship.

Visual Communication Studio

This course introduces students to Design symbols, icons and the idea of managing content and design with multiple collaterals for the web.

Human-Centric Design

This course aims to understand the spirit, purpose and impact of Humanizing Design.

Social Innovation Design Lab

This course aims to understand the nature of social innovation, and the multi-layered relationship of the human environment and design appropriate solutions to complex problems.

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Year 3 – PART I

KU Core Course

International Language – LEVEL 2

The students will have a basic grasp of formal and informal conversations and be able to read, write and understand the language. The language preference will be given to French and German/Spanish.

German

Italian

Spanish

French

Programme Core Courses

Future – Trends Technology and Disruptions

The aim of this course is to develop the ability to identify cues for major trends in the industry through research and analytical skills.

Experiential Learning Seminar-2

This course aims to disseminate the experience earned at the partner university/ institution both academically and through socio-cultural interactions to expand the understanding of cultural transitions in global design, learning and practice.

Global Experiential Learning Seminar- 2 (Italy)

The aim of this course is to disseminate the experience earned at the partner university/ institution both academically and through socio-cultural interactions to expand the understanding of cultural transitions in global design, learning and practice.

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Year 3 – PART II

KU Core Course

Entrepreneurship

This course helps to understand the importance of opportunity recognition and internal and external analyses to the success of a business venture. To understand the importance of the marketing plan to obtaining, maintaining and expanding an entrepreneur’s reach to its target market.

Elective Courses

Programme Elective – 7 (any one)

Creative Coding

Creative Coding is a practice, an experiential learning-based course designed to teach basic programming skills in the context to create something expressive like live visuals, visual art, and design, entertainment/video games, sound art, art installations, project mapping, product prototypes, advertising, and branding formats. This course aims to create a small human-machine interface with basic interaction using Arduino and processing and create interfaces between digital screens, sensors, and actuators.

Tinkering Studio

Tinkering studio allows students to experiment with various materials, techniques, technologies, tools etc and explore their real-world possibilities. The course aims to encourage the exploration of ideas and concepts to learn, discover and reinforce new and learnt skills.

Programme Elective – 8 (any one)

Biomimicry in Design

The aim of this course is to apply knowledge of biomimicry to design solutions for human problems.

Sustainable Communities

This course aims to highlight the interconnectedness of social and cultural systems within ‘communities’ to ideas of sustainability.

Programme Core Courses

Research Methodology

The subject will build an ability to instigate novel ideas and in the process gain deeper insights into a subject in a systematized way.

Emerging Technologies

This course aims to explore the potential future impact of new and rapidly evolving technologies across varied spectrums.

Interdisciplinary Design Lab

The aim of this course is to develop the ability to apply advanced cognitive skills, iterative design and material processes synchronized with a capacity for reflective practice to solve conceptual challenges through collaborative interdisciplinary methods.

Design for User Experience and Interaction

This course aims to expose student to IDEO methods of Design thinking and different stages for user experience and interaction.

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Year 4 – PART I

Programme Core Courses

Internship

The aim is to enhance and/or expand the student’s knowledge of a particular area(s) of Design and the Industry/brand. Create value for employment and the role it plays in the overall growth of the individual.

Experiential Learning Seminar -3 (UK)

The aim of this course is to disseminate the experience earned at the partner university/ institution both academically and through socio-cultural interactions to expand the understanding of cultural transitions in global design, learning and practice.

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Year 4 – PART II

Programme Common Courses

Design Management

The learner can develop a content strategy, and focus on a specific area of creative direction. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge/research in cultural studies – the history of art, design, dress, fashion and lifestyle.

Programme Core Courses

Graduation Project

To employ cognitive, technical & research skills in a discipline area to independently frame a proposal & project.

Design Research

To disseminate the knowledge of research methodology as an integral part of the Fashion Industry. Comprehend the various aspects of research methodology and gain familiarity with research techniques.

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