Abstract
In our class, which is an introductory Media Science course with the title “Basic Knowledge of Design”, we teach students how to design a leaflet for the first time. These students attend our classes reluctantly because they think that designing is an intuitive process. But in this course we teach that logic in design is very important.
This report outlines the steps that we took to educate our students in design and promote information literacy in our “Basic Knowledge of Design” course. Through our classes our students could grasp the meaning of information and understand design logic. We describe how we planned our classes and the results attained by our students.
In addition we administered a questionnaire to our students to find out what knowledge of design and what design skills they were expecting to acquire, and we developed materials for students to build up a “basic knowledge of design.” We report the results of our questionnaire here.
