Category: Interdisciplinary Art + Design Courses

Students engage in a series of personal and collaborative projects requiring them to invent new rules and processes for research, testing, and making through the acts of inquiry, observation, play, material exploration, testing, and fabrication. This course functions an introduction to an interdisciplinary studio practice as well as to the various disciplines that make up the College. Students gain an understanding of the facilities, opportunities, and course offerings that each department has to offer them, which will help with direction and course selection in the coming semesters. This studio incorporates reading, writing, and critical thinking as vital components of a holistic studio practice, instilling a fundamental approach to the program.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Narrative structures and strategies are present in all disciplines and cultures, though the form, language, intentions, and motives may vary. Examples of these structures include storytelling, brand messaging, gameplay, wayfinding, and signs and symbols. This course looks at traditional and experimental narratives across disciplines and at their intersections. Students will develop language, voice, and integrative methods for execution and delivery within and without the context of their chosen fields of study.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: IAD 105

Students will identify, examine, and react to contemporary matters of socio-cultural relevance through a creative media-blind lens, viewing social practice in a broad sense. The goal is to develop innovative interdisciplinary and inclusive solutions to art/design problems that employ students’ unique individual and combined skill sets. Students will have opportunities to use proven research methods and invent new ones.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: IAD 305

Taken in the semester prior to Interdisciplinary Thesis I, students utilize this course to research, identify, and develop potential thesis projects in consideration of their specific skill sets. Research methods will be reinforced and new strategies for discovery will be developed, where possible. The course will also include career research, relevant to the individual student’s particular path of study, with an eye toward potential internship opportunities. Students end the semester with a persuasive presentation focused on their thesis concept, and are prepared to apply for internships.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: IAD 305

The Interdisciplinary Thesis is a two-semester studio course affording students the time and space to undertake major independent interdisciplinary art and design projects. Students may propose a body of related works, a series of individual pieces, or major stand-alone projects with the goal of producing them over the course of two semesters alongside their peers, capitalizing on their diverse skill sets, professional goals, and regular critiques.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: IAD 305, IAD 308, IAD 310

This second semester thesis course completes the work begun in Interdisciplinary Thesis I. The course includes regular critiques as students work towards their individual and collective project goals, including relevant publications and public exhibition by the end of the semester.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: IAD 407

Participation in an internship experience allows junior or senior status students to use classroom-learned skills in a related employment experience. Students must work a minimum of 135 hours over the course of the entire semester. Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8. Seniors may not be eligible to participate in an internship during their final semester. Transfer students must have attended one semester at CCS in addition to meeting the other eligibility criteria.

Credits: 6

Prerequisites:

Independent Study is available to students who are at Junior or Senior level standing with a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above. The student may receive approval to work in an area or on a project that is not otherwise offered or addressed in the regular curriculum. An Independent Study should include opportunities for individual student voice and provide a space for diverse perspectives. Students may receive credit toward graduation for no more than 6 credit hours. The student must submit to the chairperson of the department in which they wish to study, an Independent Study Proposal of 150 words (no less) of the student’s plan for study and her/his reason for choosing to study independently. Once the department chairperson provides approval and the instructor for the Independent Study is determined, the faculty member must write an Independent Study Syllabus with education goals, learning outcomes, meeting dates, course expectations, timelines, and due dates. Art Education candidates must pass DAE 490 with a grade of ‘C’ (2.00) or higher to qualify for certification.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

(This is a faculty led study abroad course * syllabi will differ per destination), On a Global Learning Experience course, students are brought outside the typical classroom, for a 24/7 learning experience in varying locations outside the USA. The course will provide students with tools for analyzing your learning process and identifying cultural patterns, differences, similarities and values encountered during the journey. Students develop a sense of cross-cultural understanding, and navigate towards becoming a global citizen. Students develop a heightened sense of confidence, and leadership as they plan, and execute this excursion. In addition students discover the role of becoming an ambassador for their own culture. Practical issues about studying abroad (safety, money, packing, etc.) are delivered via pre-departure sessions with the International Student Services Office.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SLP 007