81550 Designing Your Future

Description

This subject introduces design thinking ideas, tools, and methods students need to create a successful career and a life of thriving. It is based on one of Stanford University’s most popular courses and the work they do in their Life Design Lab and is targeted towards students who want to explore career and life design as part of an intentional path into their futures. Students learn the fundamentals and stages of life design and how to apply them to their lives and careers, as well as how to get more out of opportunities and how to make decisions around their careers. Design thinking principles such as reframing, curiosity, bias towards action, mindfulness of process, radical collaboration and storytelling are introduced to create mindsets that enable career and life decision making and change. Students identify when they work at their best, and how to approach an uncertain future with positivity and conviction. In addition, they develop an understanding of how to incorporate lasting and sustainable social impact in their careers. Students are able to ideate and prototype some ideas and to explore their ideas further. Undergraduate students from all degree backgrounds and stages of their studies benefit from this subject.