DEA 4100

Diversity and Facility Design

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

The course examines the role of culture, gender, stage in the life cycle, and disability in planning facilities of various types including public spaces, educational and healthcare spaces, residential spaces and the workplace. This course examines the issues of diversity from the perspectives if the implicit and explicit assumptions about the user and how we purposely plan facilities in a diverse society.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: DEA 1500, DEA 1110, or permission of instructor.

Outcomes

• Examine implicit and explicit design assumptions related to potential users of various facility types (critical thinking).
• Examine what design means in a culturally diverse society. Students use human factors, psychological, and design perspectives to examine environments (multidisciplinary perspectives).
• Consider the value of full participation of different types of users in various facilities and settings (ethical principles).

When Offered Spring.

Comments Some of the exercises will require travel off campus.

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