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2024-2025 University Catalog

Innovation and Transformational Change Minor

Location(s): West Lafayette


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Choose your own path to obtain the Minor in Innovation and Transformational Change. Achieving the Minor requires 18 credits drawn from three categories of classes: Core Courses, Selectives, and Electives, with the latter two categories offering numerous opportunities to ensure you are linking your new knowledge and skills to problems you care about.

Requirements for the Minor (18 credits)


Required Courses (6 credits)


Two CORE COURSES are required that will collectively provide an introduction to problem framing, solution space development, innovation, and design fundamentals, and in-depth experiential learning opportunity to apply gained skills to complex design challenges.

Selective Courses (9 credits)


SELECTIVES provide an opportunity for you to develop mindsets and capabilities that are critical to driving the innovative change necessary to address complex socio-technical challenges.  You choose one course in each of three key areas to build your background:

Design Holistic Solutions (3 credits)


Employ systems thinking and rigorous innovation processes to DESIGN HOLISTIC SOLUTIONS.

Electives (3 credits)


ELECTIVES enable you to further contextualize your minor by gaining depth in an area that will enhance your potential to drive innovation and transformational change in industry, academia, or the non-profit sector.  Accumulate 3 credits from any of the following areas:

Research Methods


Learn versatile RESEARCH METHODS to gain insight into human behavior

Grand Challenges


Gain a deeper understanding of the cultural and social aspects of GRAND CHALLENGES such as: Education, Energy, the Environment, Food, and Health

Notes:


  • Achieve a GPA of at least 2.0 across the courses pursued for the minor

Pre-Requisite Information


For pre-requisite information, log in to mypurdue.purdue.edu and click here.

Disclaimer


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