Learn novel, strategic, and empathy-based problem-solving methods and prepare your students to consider the input and perspectives of multiple stakeholders through Saint Mary's University of Minnesota's online Critical, Creative, and Design Thinking graduate certificate. You will be effectively equipped through expert faculty to prompt your students to engage with different modes of thinking that support the principles of inquiry, investigation, and examination.

In an era where disruptive products and processes define market success, harnessing the power of innovation has become a prerequisite for business triumph. The Master Course in Design Thinking and Innovation offers a transformative educational journey that not only challenges the conventional adage of “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,” but shatters it entirely.

This Postgraduate Diploma in Systems Thinking in Practice develops your ability to approach and tackle complex, messy problem situations. It provides practical tools that bring new perspectives and approaches to problem-solving; it may change your thinking about a task or wider situation of interest. You’ll consider other people’s roles, reflect on your own and others’ practice and assess how the different components are related.

The Summer Junior in Creativity and Artificial Intelligence is a course in English that invites you to explore the enormous possibilities of artificial intelligence to develop and improve your creative projects. In a context where digital tools are transforming the way ideas are generated and developed, this experience will offer you a general knowledge of the universe of generative AI and some of its applications in the field of creativity.

The Motion Designer program will guide you through the basics of animation all the way to the skills you need to direct your own innovative motion concepts. You will immerse yourself in the world of motion graphics, guided by industry professionals, to become an expert creator of visual experiences. This program is for you who want to have a deep understanding of Motion design to launch or upgrade your career in the international animation or film industry.

The Motion Creative program takes participants on a journey through motion design, editing, and compositing as well as branding and concept development. Advance your design career by becoming a world-class visual storyteller and bringing your designs to life. This exciting program fuses elements of classical animation with modern technologies to help you launch your career – not just in the motion industry, but also in other motion graphics demanding fields such as marketing and advertising.

The program will provide the knowledge and skills required to help you launch your career as an XR Creative Developer. The program responds to a demand for competence that can design an immersive experience with a holistic approach to user behavior, pedagogy, value creation, and ethics. Anyone who is curious to learn how to build three-dimensional worlds and next-level user experiences. You who are eager to explore things, test and fail, and try again. How the metaverses and other immersive worlds are going to look and feel are still very visionary and things are not set in stone yet. So, this is a program for those who want to be part of mapping out what this future actually looks like. It’s really about breaking new ground.

HR manager plays a crucial role in innovation implementation process. The most effective development strategies focus on people and talent management practices, placing human resource in a unique position to empower innovative behaviors and practices within an organization.

As an individual, facts, and knowledge can only go so far. Solving tough problems requires the ability to define the true problem, analyze the possible causes, create options, select the most feasible option, and then implement it. This workshop should help individuals enhance their efforts to find sustainable solutions and learn new ways to approach problem-solving to reach win-win decisions.

Creativity, Problems Solving and Decision Making not only helps you create better solutions, it creates a positive experience that speeds the adoption of new ideas.

Your educational journey will see you acquiring a solid basis in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics, as well as skills such as critical thinking, writing, public speaking, and presentation techniques.