The College of Environmental Design Undergraduate Advising Blog

For our 2020  Urban Transformation  course, offered by Red Tree Study in partnership with Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellin, we are delighted to announce that we have a full scholarship, to the value of $2,550 USD, as well as several smaller travel bursaries. This scholarship funds participation in our two-week academic summer course taught by the RIBA-Accredited Architecture School at Pontificia Universidad Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia. Medellin, the birthplace of ‘social urbanism’, was once one of the world’s most dangerous cities, yet is now famous for its pioneering innovative urban projects that have transformed the lives of many of its citizens. It provides a perfect case study for students. The course combines lectures and seminars on campus with site visits and workshops that deliver practical knowledge of the city. Students will visit the metro-cable system, the Museum of Memory and Jardin Circunvalar communit...

SUMMER COURSE!!! American Studies  101AC :   The Business of American Popular Culture: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and the Birth of Consumer Society Summer Session A  (5/22 - 6/30/17/17) MTW 2-5, 141 McCone.  Class number: 15204.  Instructors: Kathleen Moran and Michael Cohen This is a course about the way that forms of American popular culture (dime novels, spectacles, fairs, amusement parks, vaudeville, popular music, cinema) were foundational to the growth and development of consumer society. Our course will focus on the overlapping histories of African American, Native American and White (mainly working class) communities as they were represented in popular culture and used in the creation of consumer advertising and the language of persuasion. We will also discuss how people in these communities themselves produced popular culture.  The course will be divided into four parts that overlap historically to build a picture of the way that regi...