Category: Liberal Arts Courses

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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

DAS-316 PRE-LAUNCH ESSENTIALS,ESSENTIALS

DAS-316 follows DAS-315 to form the capstone experience of the Minor in Creative Entrepreneurship. Students will focus on operational and oversight aspect of their venture, including studying, selecting and integrating information analysis and business software into a customized enterprise reporting platform. This review will include accounting information, project management and team communication, search engine optimization, customer acquisition and retention, digital marketing optimization, and enterprise resource planning. Interpersonal skills training will include internal team and business partner management, customer service and satisfaction, and business development, sales and presentation training. Finally students will secure a mini-internship with an appropriate entity. Mini-internships must be approved in advance. As needed, Design Core Detroit will help through their Design Network. This course can be used for Liberal Arts or General Elective credit.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DAS 313, DAS 314, DAS 315

DEN-410 AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS

This course introduces students to major African American authors of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Morrison, Ellison, Wright, Hurston, Mosley, and Gaines. The course surveys an extensive collection of social and cultural viewpoints present in American authors of African descent.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

DLE-322 CONSCIOUSNESS, CREATIVITY AND IDENTITY

Drawing inspiration from consciousness-centered education models, this innovative course offers students an opportunity to dive within themselves, discovering and exploring their own boundless creative potential. Consider this course an experimental incubator for the creation of ideas, images, and artistic motivation. Emphasis is placed on reflection with the student’s journaling, discussing and meditating together. This unique course offers students new methods of inquiry, encouraging students to re-integrate their own creativity and imagination. All students will have the opportunity to be trained by professional meditation teachers during the third week of class and will meditate in class throughout the semester.

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).