The Special Project class is offered on an,occasional basis, with course content specific to,the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Category: Liberal Arts
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DNS-320 MEMORY, SLEEP, AND DREAMS
In this course, students study topics that,include differing memory abilities, the,importance placed on dreams by other cultures,,and how artists are influenced by sleep and,dreams. Memory studies include theories of brain,activity and computer simulation, including,their application to personal memory habits. ,This course satisfies the General Elective,requirement.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 102 OR DEN 108
DSS-285 SPECIAL PROJECT
The Special Project class is offered on an,occasional basis, with course content specific to,the area being explored.,,
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
DVC-401 FILM NOIR AND BEYOND
Film Noir, with roots in German Expressionism and,American hard-boiled fiction, is an enduring,cinematic phenomenon. Beginning in the 1940’s,,Hollywood-produced stories of ill-fated,protagonists seduced by femmes fatales, dirty,deals, and double-crossing partners, struck a,nerve with American audiences (and soon after,World War II with French critics who named and,defined the “Noir” style). These dark tales,reflected a 20th century malaise spawned by the,Great Depression, WWII, and a contemporary shift,in gender roles. Our course will examine the,origins of Noir. This course may also be applied,to an upper level English or Liberal Arts,Elective. This course satisfies the General,Elective requirement.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 239, DVC 200 OR DVC 306
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