==== Make our ecosystem run more smoothly (Linnea) ====
type description + add picture <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-604264bd-7fff-db74-b8b2-b55d897a7a2f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While working on fellowship assignments, we discovered that the University of San Diego has a significant array of courses, programs, and events related to innovation and entrepreneurship, and many are available to any USD student. However, through interviewing other students and reflecting on our own experiences, we realized that many of these opportunities are only recognized by students within the specific school they’re being organized through (mainly the School of Business and the School of Engineering). Thus, even though there are many valuable opportunities that any student using prototypewould benefit from regardless of what major they are pursuing, most don’t take advantage of them because they aren’t aware of them or don’t see how they relate to their major.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-604264bd-7fff-db74-b8b2-b55d897a7a2f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to improve upon this disjunct in the campus ecosystem, we developed ideas to boost collaboration between the different schools on our campus. For example, two (or more) departments could commit to pairing up for the semester. Professors from those departments could co-teach a class that combines their respective fields, that way students from, say, the political science department are exposed to a subject they wouldn’t ordinarily study, like psychology. Aside from the collaborative curriculum, this would also help promote events/programs to a wider array of students, because a professor from the business school could promote an entrepreneurship competition to their class that they’re co-teaching with the biology department, and thus, bio students will be more likely to branch out.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-604264bd-7fff-db74-b8b2-b55d897a7a2f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, while many events and programs are advertised to students through specific major-related newsletter emails, it’s unlikely that a music student would be sent info about a design thinking event being hosted by the school of business via their music department newsletter. Thus, USD could create a more inclusive and encompassing newsletter that includes events/programs from all over campus.</span></span></span><div><br/></div>
==== Apply design-thinking in other courses (Tanya) ====