CEP 442 Community Empowerment & Engagement
This course will provide students with theoretical tools and practical experiences in how to empower and engage 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. Student 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.