CEP 442 Community Empowerment & Engagement
This course will provide the students with theoretical tools and practical experiences in how to empower and engage the community through design. The mutually beneficial connection of design and education as a vehicle for community empowerment and engagement will be modeled after a concept by Emily Pilloton and colleagues: 1) design for education; 2) redesigning education; 3) design as education. Students will work on a community project to address real-life concerns through an application of these principles. This course includes field-experience(s) in local community and/or community-based settings. Students are responsible for their own transportation.