Non-DAAP Major Courses

3 credit hours

This introductory course will provide you with an overview of the disciplines within the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. This course will help you understand, identify, analyze, and interpret your built historic and visual surroundings in transformative ways that will enable you to become a critical participant in your community. As participants in this course students will be asked to engage in observation, investigation, analysis and evaluation. These skills will be put to use as you encounter your surrounding environment, community, and work with your peers. You will also have the chance to listen and respond to lectures given by discipline-specific professors. There are no prerequisites for this course yet you will be required to: Work in peer groups both in class and on discussion board. Take photographs and both print and upload files as part of your assignments. Watch, evaluate, and then comment on DAAP projects that will be showcased for you on blackboard. Your evaluations, judgments and comments may be drawn upon in-class, on discussion board, in a class blog or a self-reflective writing.

Course Attributes: CM: Effective Communication; KI: Knowledge Integration; SR: Social Responsibility; First Year Experience
BoK: FA: Fine Arts

This on-line course is a survey course designed for students who are not majoring in architecture, to provide an introduction to the fundamental issues, personalities, and buildings that were involved in the history of the evolution of European and American modern architecture and design. It is intended to enhance a student's understanding and appreciation of the art of architecture and the issues that impact upon its production. The course will briefly introduce students to the major architectural movements that preceded the Modern Movement and establish a reference and context from which Modernism emerged.

3 credit hours

This course is intended as a general survey to provide an introduction to non-majors to the fundamental issues, personalities, and interior spaces that are involved in the evolution discipline of interior design. It is intended to enhance a student's understanding and appreciation of the issues that impact both the field and emerging profession. The course will introduce students to the major movements and influences that precede the current state of interior design and establish a reference and context from which the discipline has emerged.

Course Attributes: KI: Knowledge Integration; First Year Experience
BoK: FA: Fine Arts

3 credit hours

Explore the visual fundamentals of photographic design. Learn how to effectively use F-stops, shutter speed, ISO, and the various modes of a digital camera to improve your photographs and communicate your ideas. Investigate compositional techniques as they relate to photographing people, the landscape, and movement. Discover how line, form, value, color, and texture can be organized to enhance visual communication and improve interpretation.

Course Attributes: CM: Effective Communication; IL: Information Literacy; KI: Knowledge Integration
BoK: FA: Fine Arts

This course introduces the basic tools and effective uses of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop applications via weekly project assignments. Topics introduced will cover methods for vector and raster imagery, which students will apply to develop individual, creative solutions to address assigned problems. Class time will consist of work sessions, readings, tutorials, group and individual discussions, critiques and reviews. The purchase of Adobe CC Software is required.

Course Attributes: 

• CM Effective Communication
• CT Critical Thinking
• FA Fine Arts
• Foundation

Designers are often admired for their creative minds and ability to develop new and innovative way to solve everyday problems. This course explores the thought processes and tools designers use every day. Students in this class will explore the phases of Design Thinking methodologies and user focused research tools employed in a Design Thinking process model to arrive at unique and creative solutions. Students will engage with users to understand human behavior at the individual, group, community, societal, and global levels and use those insights to develop ideas. Students will work in teams on class assignments.

Course Attributes:

• CM Effective Communication
• CT Critical Thinking
• KI Knowledge Integration
• Foundation

3 credit hours

This course will explore the impact of fashion design and trends, as they are conveyed to, and shared with the public. Students will develop a working knowledge of the history of fashion media and fashion marketing, along with the various media outlets for fashion. We will consider how the message of personal style, expression, and the newest trends reaches and effects public perception. This course will include field trips to industry locations and a hands-on experience with a fashion media event; fashion show.

Course Attributes: CM: Effective Communication; CT: Critical Thinking; IL: Information Literacy; KI: Knowledge Integration
BoK: FA: Fine Arts

3 credit hours

This course will explore fashion retailing and the various business structures in the fashion industry. The primary focus will be on the numerous forms of Fashion Retailing and trends with an exploration of possible fashion-based career paths in retailing and merchandising. This course will include lectures by professionals and experts from industry and local fashion organizations and an industry field trip

Course Attributes: CM: Effective Communication; CT: Critical Thinking; KI: Knowledge Integration

3 credit hours

This course provides and introduction to trend forecasting research and methodology necessary to identify, categorize, analyze and synthesize socio-economic trends that will impact product and system development into the future.

Pre-Requisite: To take this course you must be at least a Junior.
Course Attributes: CM: Effective Communication; CT: Critical Thinking; IL: Information Literacy; KI: Knowledge Integration; SR: Social Responsibility

This course builds upon the groundwork of DAAP2017. A basic understanding of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop is expected. Focus will be on the fundamentals of typographic communication and organization of information including composition, layout, and presentation methods in both digital and print formats. Class time will consist of work sessions, readings, tutorials, group and individual discussions and reviews. Course will reinforce design principles and utilize various presentation software. The purchase of Adobe CC Software is required. Pre-requisite of DAAP2017 or by permission. - Prerequisite Definition: To take this course you must: Have taken the following Course DAAP2017 min grade C-.

Course Attributes:

• CM Effective Communication
• IL Information Literacy

3 credit hours

Students will practice science and arts based research approaches to consider the environmental consequences of the disappearance of bees through multiple modes of instruction, reflection and presentation--developing innovative habits of the mind.

Course Attributes: CM: Effective Communication; CT: Critical Thinking; IL: Information Literacy; KI: Knowledge Integration; SR: Social Responsibility; TI: Technology & Innovation; Mid-Collegiate Experience, Honors
BoK:  FA Fine Arts

In this course, students will expand upon the Fall Honors Sticky Innovation course (see website here: https://www.stickyinnovation.com/) and work with similar methods and approaches in the 1819 Innovation Hub to ideate and prototype solutions to a real world problems in teams.  The winning team will represent UC and compete in the international Biodesign Challenge in NYC (see website here: https://biodesignchallenge.org/) in June.  The Biodesign Challenge is an education program and competition that is shaping the first generation of biodesigners. They partner high school and university students with scientists, artists, and designers to envision, create, and critique transformational applications in biotech.

NOTE: Fall Sticky Innovation course is not a prerequisite.  All majors welcome and needed!  Focus problems may expand beyond bees dependent on student interests.

This course is an introduction to beer and the many aspects of beer brewing and drinking that are influenced by culture, history, and geography. Through brewery tours, we will learn the art and science of beer making and ingredients. Through field trips to the Brewery District in Over-the-Rhine we will see how beer has influenced Cincinnati culture and urban form. Beers from around the world will be discussed and tasted to demonstrate a wide range of beer styles, ingredients, and cultural preferences. Students will learn to describe the taste of beer and develop their palette to assess a beer for appearance, aroma, and flavor. Students must be 21years of age or older. A fee will be charged to cover the cost of materials.

This course is an introduction to wine and a review of many aspects of wine that are influenced by and influencing culture, history, geography, and economies. Through readings and discussion, this course reviews wine-making, health issues, the senses and their responses to wine, wine and food, and the taste of wine. Wine tastings of over50 examples are designed to present practical experience with how vinification, viticulture, and terroir express themselves in the glass, as well as the differences that vintage, clonal origin and country of origin influence the flavors and textures of the final product. A fee is required to cover the cost of course materials. Students must be 21 years of age or older.

3 credit hours

This course lays the foundations of the Permaculture Design philosophy. It will teach students how and why ecological thinking and philosophies like Permaculture are fundamental to the future on various levels, be it in farming, building, energy, or ecological systems. The student will learn the Principles and Ethics of Permaculture and how to use and implement Permaculture Design methods and practices on a small, residential scale. We will also explore how these principles can be used to create resilient and regenerative human systems and how they are applied in various situations.  Field trips are required.

Course Attributes: CM: Effective Communication; CT: Critical Thinking; SR: Social Responsibility, Sustainability Course