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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Renee A Caso <<a href="mailto:yammie@mit.edu">yammie@mit.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">April 14, 2016 at 1:22:57 PM EDT</span></div>
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<div class=""><font size="4" color="#942192" class=""><b class="">Introducing the new <a href="http://architecture.mit.edu/architectural-design/news/new-design-minor-d-minor-launch-fall-2016" class="">Minor in Design</a> for MIT Undergraduates</b>!</font></div>
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<div class="">The Minor in Design (D-Minor) provides a hub at MIT where undergraduate students can learn core principles of design in dynamic studio settings, develop a sensibility for visual and physical form, and help contribute to new ways of designing that
are applicable across a spectrum of discipline areas. The objective is to prepare students pursuing diverse career paths or further education in multiple areas, from product design to 3-D design to visual communication, and enable students to take advantage
of emerging opportunities in industry and academia.</div>
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<div class="">Through six specific subjects, the D-Minor introduces design from concept to completion through contextual critical thinking, experimentation representation, and physical production techniques, critique, iteration and reflection.</div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">• Take all three core design studio subjects (12 unit subjects, no prerequisites required):</b></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>4.031, Design Studio: Objects and Interaction — Fall</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>4.101, Design Studio: Introduction to Design Techniques and Technologies — Spring</div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">• Take 3 restricted elective subjects from either grouping of subjects:</b></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>4.500, Introduction to Design Computing</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>4.341, introduction to Photography and Related Media</div>
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Questions? Contact the D-Minor advisor <a href="mailto:tknight@mit.edu" class="">Prof. Terry Knight</a> or Course 4 administrator <a href="mailto:yammie@mit.edu" class="">Renée Caso</a><br class="">
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