Prerequisite: For acceptance into one of these minors, students must have taken Writing Studio or Writing Studio Intensive or have passed the writing placement exam.
Narrative Strategies | 3 |
Two creative writing courses such as: | |
Short Story | 3 |
Poetry Workshop | 3 |
Screenwriting | 3 |
Writing for Video Games | 3 |
Children’s Literature | 3 |
One literature course such as: | |
Genre Literature | 3 |
Greek Mythology | 3 |
Immigrant/1st Generation American Literature | 3 |
James Joyce’s Ulysses | 3 |
Magical Realisms | 3 |
Moby Dick | 3 |
Queer Voices Across Literature | 3 |
Shakespeare Plays and Films | 3 |
Culminating with: | |
Capstone Course | 3 |
Certain creative writing-based Transdisciplinary Studio (TDS) courses, can substitute for a writing course. |
Business and Economics | 3 |
Three of the following courses: | |
Business of Licensing | 3 |
Intellectual Property | 3 |
Money Math for the Right Brain | 3 |
Brand Strategies OR Brand Matters | 3 |
Designing a Social Enterprise | 3 |
Intro to Entrepreneurship | 3 |
Global Economy | 3 |
Principles of Marketing | 3 |
Culminating with: | |
Launch Prep | 3 |
Two required classes: | |
Intro to Research | 3 |
Advanced Methods in Design Research | 3 |
Two additional 3-credit courses from the following Humanities & Sciences offerings: | |
Design Ethnography | 3 |
Digital Ethnography | 3 |
Insights | 3 |
Art of Research for Fine Art | 3 |
Life Without Objects | 3 |
Fieldwork: Theory and Practice | 3 |
One Research TDS: | |
Designing Democracy (Research TDS) | 3 |
Learning from Detroit (Research TDS / Study Away) | 3 |
Or other by approval of minor director | 3 |
Intro to Materials Science and Engineering | 3 |
Three additional 3-credit courses from the following Humanities and Sciences offerings: | |
Intro to Materials for ID | 3 |
Theory of Structure | 3 |
Properties of Artistic Materials | 3 |
Nanotechnology and Design | 3 |
Materials and Methods 1 | 3 |
Science and Sustainability | 3 |
Design for Sustainability | 3 |
Light and Color | 3 |
Manufacturing Technology | 3 |
Culminating with: | |
One capstone TDS course with materials emphasis | 3 |