Design Management M.P.S.

Master of Professional Studies in Design Management

The Design Management Department's Design Management M.P.S. Program was designed to bridge the disciplines of design and business management. It provides an executive management education more focused than the M.B.A. on the special needs of design leaders managing design teams in creative industries worldwide. The program provides participants with the design management skills necessary to identify and allocate the creative assets of the firm toward sust ainable strategic advant age. The importance of ethical design intelligence as critical to sustainable advantage is a hallmark of the program. The program prepares participants for leadership roles in the design management and strategic management fields.

Curriculum

G2125-Requirements for MPS Design Management, 2011

Semester 1

Complete these courses.

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DM-631 Leadership Behavioral Simulation

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DM-632 Leadership and Team Building

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DM-652 Design Management

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DM-654 Strategic Technology:Issues and Challenges

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DM-661 Financial Reporting & Analysis

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Semester 2

Complete these courses.

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DM-651 Management Communications

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DM-622 Advertising and Promotion

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DM-633 Managing Innovation and Change

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DM-641 International Environment of Business Business

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Semester 3

Complete these courses.

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DM-653 Design Operations Management

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DM-662 Money and Markets

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DM-634 Negotiating

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DM-656 Directed Research Advisement

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Semester 4

Complete these courses.

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DM-642 Business Law

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DM-663 Financing Companies and New Ventures

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DM-643 Intellectual Property Law

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DM-621 Strategic Marketing

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DM-671 Managerial Decision Making

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DM-673 Capstone Planning: Advisement

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Semester 5

Complete these courses.

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DM-672 Business Strategy

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DM-644 Design Futures: Theory and Practice

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DM-623 Building Entrepreneurial Courage

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DM-655 New Product Management and Development

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DM-674 Shaping the 21st Century: Design Integrative Capstone

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