Creativity and Consciousness is a new course that seeks common ground in creative activity as it occurs in a variety of disciplines. The YoHA mini-grant will be used to support visitors of interest to both classes. American culural expression through movement and the role of dance as a force for resistance, survival, and spiritual and physical renewal. The YoHA mini-grant will be used to fund student attendance at performances and for guest lecturers and performers. This course helps are and design students develop critical skills for thinking, discussing and writing about design.
Students write papers exploring a design topic or issue of their choosing.
The YoHA mini-grant will be used for student projects related to publishing a collection of design criticism by undergraduates. The course covers American cinema from the early days of silent film until the present time, as well as an examination of the history of the feature film. The course also gives attention to the development of animation, the documentary, and avant-garde cinema. The YoHA mini-grant will help to make the films of FV 350 available to the larger community as an educational series on American film history that will show at the Michigan Theater. Professor Lydia Soo College of Architecture and Urban Planning Architecture is a discipline that expresses the interrelationships among art, science, and society.