| DS 101 | History of Design I, From Before the Apple to Xia Gui | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| DS 101 covers the history of design from caves and 'rude stone monuments' through the Renaissance. It covers both western or European history, as well as the design history of Asia, India, and the Americas. The course will provide students a way of seeing the parallel development of the arts in these various cultures, while providing insight into the impact of early design on later periods of art and design. Required for all Design Studies majors. 15 seats per year will be reserved for Design Studies majors. |
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| DS 102 | History of Design II: From Xia Gui to Newton's Cenotaph | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: DS 101 for DS Majors, None for Non-Majors |
| DS 102 covers the history of design from the 1200s through the 1700s. It covers both western or European history, as well as the design history of Asia, India, and the Americas. The course will provide students a way of seeing the parallel development of the arts in these various cultures. Required for all Design Studies majors. 15 seats reserved for Design Studies majors. |
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| DS 203 | History of Design III: From Newton's Cenotaph to After Apple | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: DS 102 for DS Majors; None for Non-Majors |
| DS 203 covers the history of design from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. It covers both western or European history, as well as the design history of Asia, India, and the Americas. The course will provide students a way of seeing the parallel development of the arts in these various cultures. Required for all Design Studies majors. 15 seats per year will be reserved for Design Studies majors. |
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| DS 244 | Material Culture and Industrial Design | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| DS 244 covers the history of technology and industrial design. The course is divided into three major units: technology, design, and materials before the industrial revolution; the impact of the industrial revolution; and current and future developments of the field. Required for all Design Studies majors. 15 seats reserved for Design Studies majors. |
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| DS 251 | History of Aesthetics I, From the Pre-Socratics throughout the Renaissance | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: None for Non-Majors; DS 203 for DS Majors ; Open university wide, but preference given to Design Studies Majors |
| This course examines in depth and from a cross-disciplinary perspective the history of aesthetics from Plato through the Renaissance. The course focuses on Plato's theory of Beauty and compares it to Aristotle and follows this tradition through the middle ages and the Renaissance. Additionally, time will be spent looking at and studying artifacts from various periods in light of aesthetic theories. |
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| DS 352 | History of Aesthetics II, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: DS 251 ; Open university wide, but preference given to Design Studies Majors |
| This course examines the nascent period of modern aesthetic theory. Beginning with Newton's science and Locke's epistemology, it looks at how this arid, mathematical, and additive view of the physical world and the imagination altered over the course of the eighteenth century to the entirely new vision of the Romantics, engendered by a century of reaction to Locke and systemized by Immanuel Kant, who saw the physical world as fecund and the imagination as a faculty more significant that reason. |
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| DS 353 | History of Aesthetics III, Nineteenth Century | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: DS 352 ; Open university wide, but preference given to DS Majors |
| Beginning with Kant's notion of the imagination the course examines the Idealist tradition in Germany and the rise of the Romantic Movement throughout the Western World. We will also look at opposing traditions including the empirical and scientifictradition supported by the Darwinian Revolution. The course also draws on previous courses in aesthetics to see how early theories of the arts are transformed during the nineteenth century in light of the industrial revolution and the revolutions inscience. |
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| DS 360 | Iconography | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: DS 251 ; Preference given to Design Studies Majors. |
| This course is designed to familiarize the student with standard iconography used in both the various fine arts and in design. Students will study Greek, Roman, and Christian pictorial motives and their allegorical meanings. Additionally, students will examine how design artifacts have symbolic meaning without directly using mythological or religious symbols. The topic will then be extended to the present day use of signs and symbols in art, buildings, and various design products. |
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| DS 454 | History of Aesthetics IV, Twentieth Century | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: DS 353 ; Open University wide, but preference given to Design Studies Majors. |
| This course examines the rise of Modern Aesthetics. The course analyzes the effects of nineteenth century science on aesthetic theory, and opposing metaphysical theories. Of significant importance to the course will be the contributions of Cassirer and Panofsky's Philosophy of Symbolic Form. The idea of Modernism, as embodied in the philosophy of the Bauhaus will form a core component of the course. Towards the end of the course, current theories will be examined, including Marxism and Capitalism, Feminism, and Post-Modernism. |
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| DS 481 | Design Studies Senior Research Seminar | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: Completion of all course work in DS through junior year ; Design Studies Majors |
| Each student in Design Studies will develop a topic for his or her Senior Capstone Research Paper to be done during the Spring term. During the Research semester, each student will develop a comprehensive bibliography for the topic and an outline ofthe paper. One paper will be written before the end of the term that addresses issues directly related to the Capstone Research paper. Throughout the term, students will share their research with others in the seminar. |
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| DS 482 | Design Studies Capstone Seminar | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: DS 481 ; Design Studies Majors |
| Students will meet on a weekly basis to discuss their individual research papers. Drafts of papers will be due at the end of the eighth week of class. Drafts will be read by the instructor, other instructors of the student's choosing, and by two other members of the class for critical analysis. |
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| DS 483 | Design Studies Capstone Research Paper | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: DS 481 ; Design Studies Majors |
| Course consists of guided independent study resulting in a serious research paper. Students will work on their own, with meetings with faculty advisor(s) at weekly intervals. |
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| DS 494 | Design Studies Internship | UNITS: 1-6 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing in Design Studies Program ; Design Studies Majors |
| Supervised internships in museums, galleries, schools, or other approved venues, in which students are engaged in activities related to Design Studies. Students are responsible for transportation to and from internship. |
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