INOV200-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Innovation through Design Thinking

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Design Thinking is a people-centric, collaborative, optimistic, and experimental way of working to drive innovation. The course focuses on a form of design thinking, called the DUCTRI process, as a pragmatic approach to nurture deep curiosity about business/organisational/societal issues, unleash creativity, and ensure clarity when it comes to implementing innovative solutions or solving problems. The course introduces new tools and techniques and demonstrates how to apply them to practical situations. The course will help students to collaborate in more creative ways and aims to equip students with critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving, and communication to be competitive in a dynamic global marketplace.

Learning Outcomes

The objectives of the course are:
1. Describe and apply a user-centred process for opportunity recognition, creation and development.
2. Identify opportunities found across multiple contexts including geographical, socioeconomic, industry and cultural boundaries.
3. Demonstrate a range of user-centred discovery and understanding tools to develop insight into an opportunity.
4. Create and evaluate a range of innovative solutions in response to areas of opportunity.
5. Construct and deliver a compelling message, both written and verbal, in order to build support for an innovative solution.

Prerequisites

Any 60 points.

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 16:00 - 18:00 Ernest Rutherford 140
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Timetable Note

Due to the interactive nature of the course, certain lectures (or parts of lectures) for INOV200 are not recorded using the ECHO360 lecture recording system.

Course Coordinator

Nadeera Ranabahu

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Weekly Reflective Journal Submissions 20%
Applied Group Project 45% Project process: 5%, Week 12 Poster Presentation: 15%, Week 12 Project Report: 25%
Final Examination 35% Final Examination


The ‘45% rule’ applies to this course. That is, student needs to reach 45% weighted average across invigilated assessments. Please refer here for further information.

Assessment in Te Reo Māori
In recognising that Te Reo Māori is an official language of New Zealand, the University provides for students who may wish to use Te Reo Māori in their assessment. If you intend to submit your work in Te Reo Māori you are required to do the following:

Read the Assessment in Te Reo Māori Policy and ensure that you meet the conditions set out in the policy. This includes, but is not limited to, informing the Course Coordinator 1) no later than 10 working days after the commencement of the course that you wish to use Te Reo Māori and 2) at least 15 working days before each assessment due date that you wish to use Te Reo Māori.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Kelley T & Kelley D; Creative Confidence ; William Collins, 2015.

Recommended reading: Kelley T & Kelley D, (2015). Creative Confidence, William Collins, London. Other course readings will be supplied.

Course links

LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $946.00

International fee $4,363.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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All INOV200 Occurrences

  • INOV200-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025