4 - Design & Technology HL

Course summary

Why study Design Technology? Diploma Programme Design Technology aims to develop internationally-minded people whose enhanced understanding of design and the technological world can facilitate our shared guardianship of the planet and create a better world. The course focuses on analysis, design development, synthesis and evaluation. The creative tension between theory and practice is what characterizes design technology within the DP sciences subject group. Diploma Programme Design Technology draws together a wide breadth of knowledge and builds comprehensive skills, linking to many different professional practices, allowing the application and development of theory learnt to be turned into reality and practice. This enables a much more effective learning process all round, for as Prue Leith once said: ‘Tell me and I forget, show me and I may remember, let me do it and I learn.’