Category: Academic Programs & Courses

DEN-318 SCRIPT WRITING WORKSHOP

The Scriptwriting Workshop offers art and design students an opportunity to read scripted texts within the contemporary professional canon prepared for radio broadcast, theater, television and film. Scripting mechanics will be emphasized, including voice and character development, three-act structure, plot points, sequencing and stage and shot direction. Students will compose an original short form work and critique the work of colleagues. Concepts will be reinforced through group workshop and discussion. Both critical reading and artistic sensibility will be emphasized.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102

DFA-485 SPECIAL PROJECT 300/400

The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.

FALL 2023


COLLAGE: CONTEMPORARY METHODS AND MATERIALS This course will investigate and implement the various materials, techniques, processes, and concepts of, contemporary collage. Students will work with everything from traditional cut paper, digital processes, video and audio, installation, and more. The emphasis will always be on the making of collages but with a strong consideration of what this kind of image making does in terms of meaning, its impact on contemporary art and visual culture, and its relevance to most cultural forms operating today.

CURATOR AND GALLERY MANAGEMENT

This course is an introduction to exhibition planning and management within a contemporary art gallery context. Through readings, presentations, and hands-on experiences, students will learn about the exhibition-making process, including research, curation, exhibition design, installation, and promotion. By the end of the course, students will have gained practical experience in organizing and managing an exhibition and be equipped with the skills to become curators and gallery workers within contemporary art spaces. Open to Non-Majors

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFA 115, DFA 120

DFD-310 ADVANCED WEAVING

In this advanced class, students will use floor and dobby looms to further explore more complex weave structures while expanding the knowledge and proficiency within the craft of woven textiles. Special focus is placed on documentation and presentation of inspiration, creative process. and finished works are complementary to the professional practice of this studio course.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFD 210

DFN-135 IMAGE CONCEPTS I

An introduction to analog image-making that investigates analog media and techniques from gestures to contemporary interdisciplinary processes. Students will problem-solve key concepts through a series of individual and collective projects that rethink drawing beyond observation and perception, incorporating research, chance, and experimentation.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

DGD-224 MOTION NARRATIVES

This second motion design course is an elective, and expands on the concepts and methods presented in designing dynamic digital communications that rely on the use of typography, image, video, message, and sound that were introduced in Motion I. Students will expand on their understanding of how messages are created in a dynamic context using typography, image, sound, and semiotics. Project will integrate 2D/3D concepts that expands on the important role of video creation and production, including digital tools, and techniques, relevant for communication design majors. Projects consider appropriate narrative messaging structures with audience(s)/User(s) needs and intents as a primary focus.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DGD 211, DGD 251, DGD 263

DGD-378 EXPERIENCE DESIGN

This elective course expands students’ ability to create human centered user interfaces and experiences. Projects consider the role of systemic nature of interactive experiences from analog to digital, real to virtual. Project outcomes are a connected set of experiences that can shift from screen to spatial environments through the use of code, gesture, type, narrative messaging, color, image, sound, and motion. Research and development into information mapping, wireframing, high-low physical prototyping, performative usability testing, logic, narrative messaging, and material construction are key themes in the process of creating systemic UxD solutions with expanded definition of user needs and inclusive scenarios are core to project outcomes.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DGD 365, DGD 311 OR DGD 312

DHS-306 DETROIT: PAST AND PRESENT

This course is designed to meet two broad objectives: 1) to provide a comprehensive introduction to the historical narrative of the city of Detroit and the American urban experience; and 2) to practice skills of critical analysis in research, writing and presentation. We will accomplish these objectives by researching primary documents and artifacts; reading personal narratives; viewing select documentaries and film clips; listening to guest speakers representing multiple cultural and racial viewpoints and visiting a site of historical significance.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Take one 3.0 credit, 200 level course from one of the following subjects: DAH (Art History), DEN (English), DAS (Academic Studies), DVC (Visual Culture).

DIL-307 ILLUSIONIST PAINTING (INTERMEDIATE)

“Illusionist Painting” is an atelier style course focused on contemporary representational practices, with an emphasis on creating the illusion of form from the live figure. Students will have extended class time to accomplish paintings from a diverse grouping of live figure models of varied race, gender, sexual identity/orientation, and disability/differently-abled backgrounds. The course will include an observational approach to painting the human figure and will develop skills in proportion, perspective, modeling form and illusion, based on an intermediate level. The intermediate class will emphasize the completed image “lay-in” stages of drawing, painting, and proportions, color concept, and narrative elements in painting. We will cover contemporary methods and materials, and traditional methods in panel painting, canvas and chassis, ground preparation, pigment preparation, varnishes and mediums, and mural painting among other methods and practices.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 247

DIL-361 DIGITAL GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION

In this course, projects are structured to respond to particular image communication goals. Students explore the characteristics of this vector based digital image making application, and create visual narrative stories including age, gender, disability/differently- abled, sexual orientation, economic class, climate change/justice, and global cultures. Students become familiar with the use of Adobe Illustrator.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:, DIL 270