Don,
You might wish to check out the Engineering and Product Design Education series of conferences. I have reviewed papers for the EPDE series and attend and presented at these conferences.
There are always several design education curricula presented.
The conference is organised under the auspices of the design society, in particular their special interest group on design education.
I'm in Moscow right now, and might be able to locate some papers on the CD-Roms of past conferences if you can't find anything via the web on my return.
Let me know how you get on.
Best,
Paul
On 25 Apr 2011, at 04:12, "Don Norman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As many of you might know, I have been trying to understand the nature of
> design education across the world for at least 3 different levels:
> undergraduate, professional masters, and an academic PhD.
>
> I have written a paper for the conference on Doctoral Education in Design to
> be held in Hong Kong 22-25 May, 2011.
>
> The paper is: Design and the University: An uneasy fit.
> http://db.tt/vI0HRGv
> The conference is:
> http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/DocEduDesign2011/index.php
> http://www.icograda.org/events/events/calendar810.htm
>
> One of the reviewers of my paper wished I had more references (I have
> no references). Alas, I don't know of any that deal with actual
> curricula. I seek your advice. I am interested in the actual courses that
> are required of undergraduate, masters students, and PhD students in design.
> I am NOT interested in the philosophy of the curriculum -- I want actual the
> actual curricula -- the courses.
>
> Repeat: I do NOT want references on the philosophy of design education. I
> have encountered many excellent papers on this topic. For example, the very
> excellent papers by Archer, Baynes, and Roberts (Framework for design):
> http://www.data.org.uk/generaldocs/dater/Framework%20for%20Design.pdf
>
> This collection is all about philosophy. i highly recommend these readings,
> as well as that of our esteemed fellow discussant, Ken Friedman. But none of
> these recommend actual courses. What is it that we should be teaching?
>
> I want examples of real curricula: actual courses.
>
> EXAMPLES: The ACM (the professional society of computer science)
> has issued several curricula recommendations. Here are some, including one
> for Computer-Human Interaction (which, to me, is a subset of interaction
> design).
> http://old.sigchi.org/cdg/cdg2.html
> http://www.acm.org/education/curricula/IS%202010%20ACM%20final.pdf
> http://www.acm.org/education/curric_vols/CC2005-March06Final.pdf
>
> I am not saying we should follow these recommendations. But I am looking for
> something in the field of design that has the same flavor as these: a set of
> actual course recommendations.
>
> Thanks
>
> Don Norman
> www.jnd.org [log in to unmask]
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