Teachers with multidisciplinary backgrounds are meant to “immerse [students] in a system of innovative thinking, with specific goals for solving practical problems”. The courses may build on input from any part of Stanford University, including themes such as “fostering democracy; aiding individuals with threatening medical profiles; or paving the way for the next great start-ups". Instead of only trying to solve ready-defined problems, students are meant to creatively identity “what needs fixing and how to go about it" with the help of direct observation and interviews. After identifying a problem worth of working on, students imagine possibilities through “ideation" and then select a solution for prototyping and testing.