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Ready to Create Impact?

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Ready to create impact -- in sustainable design? We’re offering one of our sustainability-focused courses for the Spring, open to all.

If you’re considering joining our fully online MA in Sustainable Design program, this is a good chance to engage with us and see what it’s like to learn online. If not, it’s a wonderful way to learn more about sustainability!

Fundamentals of Sustainable Design

Course Description
This foundational course introduces students to sustainability concepts related to business, community, communications, and innovation, as well as covering practical design-for-sustainability (D4S) concepts, strategies, tools and techniques. The universal design-for-sustainability approaches covered in the course are applicable for practicing designers of all disciplines, as well as innovators, marketers and entrepreneurs. Students learn and apply these concepts and strategies to self-directed design projects and exercises in addition to readings, research, lectures, and discussions.

This is a graduate level class and is part of MCAD's Master of Arts in Sustainable Design.

Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2026- Tue, May 12, 2026

Registration opens January 5.

While you're there, check out the (fully online) Sustainable Design courses we're offering this fall!

If you have questions about the MA in Sustainable Design program, please email me. Applications for Fall 2026 are due June 1.

Published on
December 19, 2025

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