Interdepartmental 123 - Introduction to Collaborative Innovation

Intro Collab Innovation

Spring
2026
01
2.00
Megan Lyster,Alix Gerber

M 1:40 PM - 4:20 PM

Smith College
IDP-123-01-202603
mlyster@smith.edu,agerber@smith.edu
(Previously CIX 101). This course introduces students to key frameworks and theoretical concepts within the domains of collaborative leadership, human centered design and entrepreneurial innovation, and critically considers these practices and their impact in the world. Students engage with guest speakers who are working within diverse fields and roles to examine and explore these concepts within a real-world context. Students engage in hands-on exercises and assignments that introduce ways of working within these domains and reflect on relationships between these domains and their own disciplinary work. This course is the gateway for the Collaborative Innovation Concentration, but is open to all students. S/U only. Enrollment limited to 32.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.