DESMA 160
Special Topics in Design | Media Arts
Description: Studio, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Completion of preparation for major and upper-division core courses required. Requisite: course 101 or 104. Selected topics in design and media arts explored through variety of approaches that may include projects, readings, discussion, research papers, and oral presentations. Topics announced in advance. May be repeated for credit with topic change. Letter grading.
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Spring 2023 - I liked this class, but I think you have to be pretty interested in social justice and activism. A lot of classmates were really disinterested and it pissed Professor Mendez off which was just never pretty to see, and I could feel this tension of stress and trepidation in class discussions, and it was just a lame cycle. That being said if it does interest you, it's an amazing class, because the material is poignant and relevant and important, talking about alternative ways of being and the changes necessary to subvert dominant white-supremacist capitalist system, especially traditional ways of looking at nature and ecology. The first half of class is about readings and discussions, and then the second half is about the creative process and making a project. Professor Mendez is pretty helpful and open to almost anything, but be firm with your vision and actually care about what you're doing, it'll make the world of difference.
Spring 2023 - I liked this class, but I think you have to be pretty interested in social justice and activism. A lot of classmates were really disinterested and it pissed Professor Mendez off which was just never pretty to see, and I could feel this tension of stress and trepidation in class discussions, and it was just a lame cycle. That being said if it does interest you, it's an amazing class, because the material is poignant and relevant and important, talking about alternative ways of being and the changes necessary to subvert dominant white-supremacist capitalist system, especially traditional ways of looking at nature and ecology. The first half of class is about readings and discussions, and then the second half is about the creative process and making a project. Professor Mendez is pretty helpful and open to almost anything, but be firm with your vision and actually care about what you're doing, it'll make the world of difference.
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