GDP Programme Structure
PART-1
KU CORE
- Professional Communication
- Leadership Lab-1
PROGRAMME CORE COURSES
- History of Design and Art
- Digital Lab
- Material Exploration
- Drawing Lab (Observation Based)
- Fundamentals of Design - 1 Elements-Principles- Colour-Allignment- Type- Gestalt)
PROJECT
PART-2
KU CORE COURSES
PROGRAMME CORE COURSES
- Thinking Skills
- Discover Design in India
- Global Culture and Trends
- Design Drawing Lab
- Observing Culture and Environment
- Material Techniques
- Fundamentals of Design - 2 (Form Studies- Advanced Gestalt)
PART-1
KU CORE COURSE
PROGRAMME CORE COURSES
- Human Behaviour and Design Psychology
- Experiential Learning Seminar -1
Global Experiential Learning- 1 (Australia)
KU CORE COURSE
- International language -1 (any one)
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- French
ELECTIVE COURSES
- Programme Elective - 1(any one)
- Interior Materials and Technology
- Product Materials and Processes
- Fashion Construction Lab
- Programme Elective - 2(any one)
- Interior Representation and Documentation 1
- Product Design Drawing & Form Studies
- Fashion Illustration & Drawing
KU Open Elective
- KU Open Elective - 1(any one)
PROGRAMME CORE COURSES
- Ergonomics and Human Factor
- Visual Communication Studio - 1
- Human Centric Design
- Social Innovation Design Lab
PART-1
KU CORE COURSE
- International language -2 (any one)
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- French
PROGRAMME CORE COURSES
- Future - Trends Technology and Disruptions
- Experiential Learning Seminar -2
Global Experiential Learning- 2 (ITALY)
KU CORE COURSE
ELECTIVE COURSES
- Programme Elective -7 (any one)
- Creative Coding
- Tinkering Studio
- Programme Elective - 8 (any one)
- Biomimicry
- Sustainable Communities
PROGRAMME COMMON COURSE
PROGRAMME CORE COURSES
- Emerging Technologies
- Design for User Experience and Interaction
- Interdisciplinary Design Lab
PART-1
PROGRAMME CORE COURSES
PROGRAMME COMMON COURSE
- Experiential Learning Seminar -3
PART-2
PROGRAMME CORE COURSES
- Design Research
- Graduation Project
PROGRAMME COMMON COURSE
GDP Year-wise Learning Outcomes
The course will take students through various facets of interdisciplinary design with a focus on pathway based disciplines such as Visual Communication, Fashion Design, Product Design, Interior Design with the flexibility to choose from different domains and design disciplines.
In addition to a ‘home-base’ center at UID, Gandhinagar, each student undergoes a global design learning experience at each of the other partner institutions in Europe, Australia & UK.
The first year is dedicated towards building a strong foundation and introducing the students to the basics and fundamentals of Design using an interdisciplinary and practice based approach. It gradually moves on to relatively complex approaches to develop their critical thinking skills and their understanding of design and elements around them.
As the course progresses the students undergo a global learning experience in their second year, first half focuses on innovation and design. They are taken through increasing degrees of complexities of design practice and understanding. They understand and connect to larger issues of society and culture, semiotics and aesthetics, environment and ethnography, innovation and socially responsive design. In the second half of Second year the students choose a discipline or pathway of their choice with elective options that are interdisciplinary. The students further develop their skills in their chosen pathways with a choice of electives culminating in the interdisciplinary design lab.
In the third year the students continue discipline or pathway of their choice with elective options that are interdisciplinary. The students undertake a global experience where they learn advanced pathway based skills to inculcate best practices and experience an international classroom. The students further develop their skills in their chosen pathways with a choice of electives culminating in the interdisciplinary design lab.
During the fourth year students undertake a highly advanced research based experience abroad at a leading university internationally. Then they undertake their major project and have the final showcase of the overall disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning process through the B.Design (Hons.) Global Design Programme.
Karnavati University
Unitedworld Institute of Design