Introduces the basic elements and forms of poetry, as well as major poets, with an emphasis on contemporary works.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Take DEN-102
Category: Liberal Arts Courses
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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-247 HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN
This course surveys the historical and nonhistorical innovations that have taken place in graphic design from 1850 to the present. Students discuss the impact of various technologies and their influence on the resulting forms and functions of the objects/images presented. The social and political climate of past cultures and their contextual relationship with design are considered. Thus, students come to understand design as visual communication that speaks of its time and place. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 102
DAS-313 CREATIVE ENTREPREN: BRANDING ESSENTIALS
This course is offered to students who wish to understand branding, marketing, creative and integrated marketing communications, and how they work in industry. The course consists of small student teams, whose interactions and work efforts mirror those in an industry marketing firm or agency. Teams create a new product or service for their brand, and work to get it ready for a final presentation to a small group of industry subject matter experts and practitioners. Over the weeks, teams conduct secondary research, define a target audience, develop a strategic brand platform, brand name and visual ID system, create messaging content, digital, experiential co-marketing, and guerilla marketing plans. These are followed by customer relationship management and customer loyalty programs, along with personal and team skill advancement. Teams make weekly presentations to the instructor, which create an ongoing feedback loop to enhance team and personal improvement. This course may count towards liberal arts or general elective credit.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DAS 213 OR DAS 303
DEN-325 WOMEN’S LITERATURE
This course looks at some of the sexual, social, and cultural dilemmas facing women as writers, artists and individuals, based upon the literature written both by and about them. Readings include novels and a series of short fiction, essays, poetry, etc.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 102
DLE-305 HOMER’S ODYSSEY, SCI-FI AND,AFRO-FUTURISM
Homer’s Odyssey, Sci-Fi, and Afro-Futurism is a class in Critical Theory, Visual Culture/Film Studies that explores the impact of The Odyssey in Sci-Fi, Critical Theory, and Post-Colonial discourse in experimental film, poetry, and the novel. The class explores why The Odyssey has become the source text for the Sci-Fi genre in which seas are replaced by space, in which the journey home is the means of encounter with the strange and the alien, and where the migration of a people becomes existential. The class is also an introduction to Homer’s Odyssey, to the philosophical interpretation of film/Sci-Fi, and to the movement known as Afro-Futurism, a transnational Black avant-garde that uses music, film, art, and poetics to explore the future in terms of the place of space. In this class there is a deliberate juxtaposition of mainstream and experimental Sci-Fi to elicit a new critical thinking.
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).
DNS-321 THE BRAIN: PSYCHOLOGY, ART & BEHAVIOR
Does it matter how your brain produces the rich sensory array of the world surrounding you? As an artist, what can you control of the visual activities that seem so automatic? This course examines the experimental steps leading up to the most recent model of brain function, including information from MRI imaging, questions about brain plasticity (the ability to reprogram cell functions), and the ways experience changes the brain. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 102 OR DEN 108
DSS-310 ART THERAPY MODELS
In this course, students explore theoretical approaches to art therapy historically and the role of the art therapist in assisting others to reach their highest potentials. Visual and diagnostic components, levels of expression and influences of imagery are addressed through case studies and art therapy.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 102
DVC-402 FILM STUDIES: SCIENCE FICTION
In this course students will explore the ways in which science fiction films have represented contemporary culture trends such as fear of the other and cold-war paranoia in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the terror of the body in Aliens and the transhumanism in District 9. Course readings will examine the development of the science fiction film as a distinct genre from a variety of viewpoints including historical analysis, race and gender studies, and critical theory. This course may apply as an upper level English and Liberal Arts elective. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 239, DVC 200 OR DVC 306
DAH-251 HISTORY OF CRAFTS
This course surveys the major developments within the craft tradition that have influenced contemporary studio practices and cultural acceptance. Emphasis is on the many social and cultural contexts that have shaped the path of artistic production. Particular focus will center on nineteenth and twentieth century innovations and their impact on today’s craft, craftsman and culture. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 102