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-252 HISTORY OF FASHION

This course explores the history of fashion from the earliest periods of human development to modern industrial, digital society as it influences the Western style of dress, garment production, fashion in the wider culture, and the marketing of fashion. Detailed focus on individual designers, trends and processes will illuminate the many ways fashion represents a profound anthropological study of humanity. Organized field trips to local artisan studios for presentations and discussions will be provided to enhance the understanding of process and artifact. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102

DAS-315 CREATIVE ENTREPREN: STRUCTURAL,ESSENTIALS

This course is offered for students enrolled in the CCS Minor in Creative Entrepreneurship. It is taught as a cohort and is followed by the final capstone business class, DAS-316. After successfully completing these two capstone courses, students are prepared as entrepreneurial thought and action leaders and have been trained to launch their own creative industry venture. Students are first introduced to different organizational structures including leadership, cultural, and behavioral options and select those most compatible with their mission and values. Using research, students evaluate their venture’s competitive landscape, and then create and defend their strategic brand platform, brand name, product/service offerings, and core customer base. This leads to the creation of behaviorally motivating brand content, applied to an integrated set of customer attraction, conversion, retention, and sales programs. Students also learn to refine their soft skills, including engaging, listening, and selling. This course culminates with students’ intensive interaction with actual business owners and creative industry experts in formal presentations

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DAS 313, DAS 314

DEN-402 THE AMERICAN NOVEL

We orient ourselves, we define ourselves, in emotional, temporal, physical space. This course explores important American texts which convey a strong sense of place, or, in other words, emotional, political and/or cultural environments, from the early urbanism and social realism of Sister Carrie, to the rise of modernism, urban anonymity, and apocalyptic fantasies in The Day of the Locust, and ultimately, to post modern experiments, including the graphic novel, which test the boundaries of our accepted notions of time and space and identity.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

DLE-311 BIOPOLITICS: WASTE & VIOLENCE

Biopolitics is one of the most significant developments in Critical Theory. Using the topics of waste and violence, this class offers an introduction to the main concepts, strategies, and pre-occupations of Biopolitical thinking and its relevance to understanding the contemporary world and violence of globalization. A significant aspect of the course is the use and role of film as critical theory.

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-326 TECHNOCULTURE

In this course, students follow the history of technology as it emerges from scientific discoveries such as quantum and subatomic particle changes and capitalizes on the new means they have made available. These include aleatory and electronic music and the new combination of sounds made possible by sampling. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102 OR DEN 108

DSS-319 ANTHROPOLOGY: PEOPLE & RESOURCES

This anthropology class explores the issue of resource distribution, acquisition and use across the world from historical to contemporary perspectives. Specifically, the class looks at all the variables that impact, create and/or shape inequality in the world. There will be an overview of the field of anthropology and the concept of “the economy.”, To better understand how people have created wealth and power over time various theoretical and empirical works will be utilized. Capitalism, colonialism, slavery, genocide, decolonization, environmentalism, and creative entrepreneurship will be studied, including how people make a living. The tension between different perspectives on the economy and what/who influences/shapes/controls it will be explored. Finally, how people reduce, reuse, and recycle materials in their personal and professional lives will be studied.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102

DVC-407 EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Film is an inherently exploratory medium. From the earliest “movies” of the 1890s to present-day digital technology, its evolution as an art form has paralleled developments in its means of production. However, outside the control of the major studios, an alternative cinema, called ”avant-garde” or “experimental ” has appropriated the most economical means to create a visionary, challenging, often disruptive body of work. And alternate systems of distribution have arisen to make possible its appreciation by small but devoted audiences. Our course will examine a phenomenon that the British Film Institute has called “almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition.” Yet our task will be precisely to trace its history, give definition to its various facets, and engage with the concepts and issues they raise. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239, DVC 200 OR DVC 306

DAH-261 HISTORY OF ADVERTISING

This course explores the evolution of advertising throughout the 20th century. From the creative revolution in the 60’s to the proliferation of alternative media and the World Wide Web, students study the trends, technology, agencies and people in this creative industry.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102