Category: Liberal Arts

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Liberal Arts Minor Requirements

Art History

Choose one course – 3 credits

  • DAH 200 Western Art History/Visual Culture
  • DAH 201 Visual Narration: Africa
  • DAH 202 Visual Narration: Asia

Choose four courses – 12 credits

  • DAH 301 Classical Art & Early Medieval
  • DAH 307 20th Century European Art
  • DAH 206 History Of Illustration
  • DAH 213 History Of Photography
  • DAH 214 History Of Animation & Digital Media
  • DAH 221 History Of Interior Design
  • DAH 247 History Of Graphic Design
  • DAH 215 History Of Film
  • DAH 216 History Of Video Games
  • DAH-241 History Of Modern Design
  • DAH 251 History Of Crafts
  • DAH 252 History Of Fashion
  • DAH 357 Iconography and Mythology
  • DAH 401 Art Practice, Social Theory And The City
  • DLE 411 Care Of The City: Detroit

Art Therapy

DSS 221 Introduction To Psychology – 3 Credits

DSS 310 Art Therapy Models – 3 Credits

DSS 420 Art Therapy Experientials – 3 Credits

Choose Two Courses – 6 Credits

  • DSS 320 Psychology Of Perception
  • DSS 324 Psychology Of Creativity
  • DSS 330 Psychology Of Adjustment
  • DSS 337 Abnormal Psychology
  • DSS 345 Developmental Psychology

Creative Entrepreneurship

DAS 213 Business Practices* – 3 Credits 

*Studio Art & Craft majors take DAS-303 Professional Practices For Artists

DAS 313 Branding Essentials – 3 Credits

DAS 314 Financial Essentials – 3 Credits

DAS 315 Structural Essentials – 3 Credits

DAS 316 Pre-Launch Essentials – 3 Credits

Creative Writing

DEN 307 Creative Writing Workshop-3 Credits

Choose Four Courses-12 Credits From The Following:

  • DEN 303 POETRY Writing Workshop
  • DEN 312 FICTION Writing Workshop
  • DEN 314 Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop
  • DEN 316 The Graphic Novel Workshop
  • DEN 317 Science Fiction And Horror Writing Workshop
  • DEN 318 Scriptwriting Workshop

Critical Theory

DLE 310 Introduction To Critical Theory – 3 Credits

Choose Four Courses – 12 Credits (300-400 Level):

  • DAH – Art History
  • DEN – English
  • DHS – History
  • DNS – Natural Science
  • DPL – Philosophy
  • DSS – Social Science
  • DVC – Visual Culture
  • DLE – Liberal Arts Elective

Sustainability & Social Responsibility

DNS 345 Earth & Environmental Science – 3 Credits

Choose Four Courses – 12 Credits

  • DLE 311 Waste Violence & Biopolitics in the Modern World
  • DLE 411 Care of the City: Detroit
  • DPL 355 Art & Social Responsibility
  • DAH 401 Art Practice, Social theory & the City
  • DHS 338 Shoppers, Advertisers & Retailers: Consumption & the American Culture

Visual Culture

DVC 200 Concepts And Methods Of Visual Culture – 3 Credits

Choose Four Courses – 12 Credits

  • Any 300/400 Level Art History Class
  • DVC 301 Imagined Worlds: Utopias/Dystopias
  • DVC 306 Introduction To Film
  • DVC 401 Film Noir And Beyond
  • DVC 402 Film Studies: Science Fiction
  • DVC 406 Doc Film: (Re)presenting The Real
  • DVC 407 Experimental Film
  • DPL 430 Waste Violence And Biopolitics In The Modern World

DEN-285 SPECIAL PROJECT 300/400

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

FALL 2024


SCREENPLAY ANALYSIS

Students gain insights into the craft of screenwriting and the development process through the close study of several feature film screenplays, the final cut of each film, and a variety of the tools used by the renowned screenwriters and directors who developed each story and script.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN-102

DAH-221 HISTORY OF INTERIOR DESIGN

This course is a comprehensive survey of the historical development of interior design with emphasis on furniture and the decorative arts. The course explores the designs and materials of Egypt, the Classical Mediterranean, the Medieval World and Tudor-Elizabethan England. Students examine the influence of Islam on Spanish design and that of the French monarchy on Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. The course concludes with the technological developments and their impact on designs of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Lectures and on-site study of museum collections provide direct experience of the decorative arts. The history of interior design and furniture encompasses numerous styles, movements, and individual artistic contributions. It also reflects the influence of cultural, political, and social developments

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102

DAS-213 BUSINESS PRACTICES

This course prepares students to function as professional artists and/or designers. It provides an introduction to contemporary business theories, trend analysis, and branding techniques and practices. As well, students learn and use basic project management principles, project costing models, and the elements of business plan design. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102

DEN-317 SCI FI AND HORROR WRITING

Science Fiction and Horror may transport readers to a planet light years away or usher them through fiend filled graveyards and crypts. Whether extrapolating futuristic technology from contemporary science or conjuring novel survival strategies, these genres imagine what might have been or what might be, creating a platform for rich possibility. In this course, we will explore the nature of both genres by reading and discussing a diverse selection of works drawn from text, film, television, radio and comics before students generate writing of their own. Concepts will be reinforced through group workshop and discussion. In this multi-genre course, we will focus on those elements that make for vivid, effective, memorable writing in science fiction and horror: original detail, memorable image, inventive language and authentic setting. Both critical thinking and artistic sensibility will be emphasized.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102

DLE-210 INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THEORY

The seminar will proceed through close reading of key texts of philosophy in relation to competing readings of literary works – for example, Beckett’s Endgame as interpreted by Cavell and Adorno. The course will also pay attention to the role of film in the development of avant-garde and feminist critical theory - Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman.(There will be screenings of Endgame and The Society of the Spectacle in class, and In girum nocte et consumimur igni, and Jeanne Dielman will be outside class at MOCAD.), The course is not a survey, but an introduction, and so seeks to provide students with a vocabulary historically situated to enable independent work; to this end the emphasis will be upon close attention to texts and works. DEI: Critical Theory is a post-philosophical style of thinking developed in Germany between the two World Wars. Critical Theory, begun in the Frankfurt School, is the use of psycho-analytic concepts (Freud) with the politics of the Young Marx to develop a theory of society, art, literature, and modernity.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102

DVC-306 INTRODUCTION TO FILM

This course is designed to give students an introduction to film as an art worthy of critical attention. Students develop the ability to think, discuss and write about film in an academic context.

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).