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设计学院取代商学院成为热门

为了激发创造力和合作精神，哈素·普拉特纳设计学院的装潢设计很独特，内部看起来就好像是为成年人准备的幼儿园游戏室：色彩明亮的家具、开放式的空间、各种颜色的即时贴比比皆是。这家学院表示，大多数设计都旨在促进团队合作，像是很硬的座椅和不大的课桌可以鼓励学生们一直站着，走近彼此以便更密切地合作。

The d.school doesn't award degrees and isn't tied to any individual department, but two to four times as many students want to take its courses than there are seats available. It now enrolls 700 students a year, up from 100 in its inaugural year. Courses run the gamut from designing products for the world's poor to 'D.Compress: Designing Calm,' in which students design technology that 'enables calm states of cognition, emotion and physiology.'

这家设计学院并不授予学位，也不附属于任何一个院系，但是希望上设计学院课程的学生人数是学院所能接受学生数的两到四倍。目前该学院每年接收700名学生，比初创那年的100名学生多出不少。课程设置涉及领域相当广泛，有些课程要求学生设计出供世界各地穷人所使用的产品，还有一门名为“D.Compress: Designing Calm的课程，教授学生能够在认知、情感和生理上带来平静状态的设计技巧。

Organizations are taking note. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, game company Electronic Arts Inc., EA -0.08%JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU +1.20%and the software firms SAP and Intuit Inc. INTU +0.65%have worked closely with the school, acting as test cases for courses or posting job openings on d.school boards.