Tag: Liberal Arts

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-401 WONDROUS MACHINE: CARS IN AM LIT & FILM

This course explores the myriad and changing,roles,of the automobile in American culture. Through,numerous examples of car culture in literature,and,film, this course interrogates, celebrates and,ponders both the past and future of one of modern,technology’s most remarkable and influential,inventions. A survey of literary and cinematic,case studies are used in the course to establish,an ongoing, theoretically geared discussion of,the,Wondrous Machine.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

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-301 CLASSICAL ART AND EARLY MEDIEVAL

Students explore the roots of Western civilization,in the classical Greco-Roman tradition. Since,architecture and sculpture are the hallmarks of,this period, major Greek and Roman monuments will,be highlighted. The course will also discuss this,classical tradition as the source of early,Christian art, Byzantine art and early medieval,art, including Romanesque.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DAH 200, DAH 201 (or DAH 202)

DAS-485 SPECIAL PROJECT 300/400

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

FALL 2023

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,SETTING UP SHOP,
,This course is designed as a special project for,students interested in designing, creating, and,maintaining a store where students and alumni can,sell their art. Students will develop and,implement a business plan using market trends and,project management principles. Students in this,course will create a contact network to contribute,to the long-term success of the student/alumni,shop.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DAS 213

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-307 ART AND PEDAGOGY FROM SOCRATES TO,JOSEPH BEUYS

Socrates famously said to his student, Meno: “I,don’t know that I can teach you, and I don’t even,know that you can learn! The best I can be is a,midwife to ideas.” At first, Socrates is talking,about Virtue, but also, Justice, Beauty, Art.,Joseph Beuys declared that “To be a teacher is my,greatest work of art.” If we do not know that we,can learn, and do not know that we can teach, why,,then, do we talk so much about Art, as a society,spend so much on Art, and go into debt to,”learn” about something that we are not even sure,can be learned? What are the implications of,making pedagogy – and with it dialogue and a,changed relationship between “teacher”and,”student” – the subject of art? Art + Pedagogy,from Socrates to Joseph Beuys looks at why,teaching / pedagogy (BFA/MFA/PhD; Paulo Freire,,Jacques Rancière, Lygia Clark, etc.) along with,dialogue / conversation and the meal as a vehicle,of self-learning and new strategies of,inter-subjectivity (Plato’s The Banquet /,Symposium, Dante’s The Banquet, Theaster Gates,,Rirkrit Tiravanija, Michael Rakowitz, InCubate,,Detroit Soup, etc.) have become such prominent,,troubling, and exciting subjects in contemporary,art practices precisely at the moment when there,is recognition that the democratization of art and,its institutions begun in the Twentieth Century is,over and the techniques for transmitting /,teaching this “art” have become obsolete. Students,are invited to conclude the semester with a,student-curated meal and conversation or Banquet,of friends.

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).