In this course, students work in a team to learn and apply the engineering design process to solve an open-ended, client-based problem drawn from a community partner. Read more about Engineering Design and Communication »

This course is designed to help students connect the intellectual themes and scholarly knowledge they have developed in the Gateway, Introduction to Human Rights, and the electives they have taken toward the Human Rights Certificate. The course integrates co-curricular rights-related experiences (... Read more about Capstone: Research in Human Rights »

The term “open source” is frequently used to denote software source code that is freely available, modifiable and shareable. However, the term has much wider applicability and relevance. Read more about Designing Transformative Learning »

Most people spend their lives afraid of failing. Yet, many of the world’s most successful people failed numerous times on their paths toward success. The underlying question of this class is if failing is as antithetical to learning as we’re taught to believe. To explore this question, we will test... Read more about Learning to Fail »

In this course, small teams of students from different fields will work together on an arts-based entrepreneurial project. The goal of the course is to create a business plan and launch ventures in areas of the arts. Read more about Arts Entrepreneurship »

This community-engaged course provides an introduction to contemporary issues in U.S. arts policy and cultural sector leadership across four broad themes: creative institutions; cultural equity and accessibility; creative placemaking/community development; and the creative economy. Read more about Arts Policy, Leadership and Engagement »

This course offers an introduction to ideologies and political debates that shape the cultural configuration of Hispanic communities both within and outside the U.S. borders. The main goal is to explore and examine critically how particular discourses (within different genres and media) relate to... Read more about Radio and Resistance: LatinX AM »

In the Social Innovation Practicum, students learn about and support the design, development, assessment and scaling of innovative, sustainable approaches to addressing critical social and environmental problems in Durham and around the world. Read more about Social Innovation Practicum »

This course explores normative concepts in politics, liberty, justice and the public interest, including their historical and philosophical roots, relationship to one another and to American political tradition, and implications for domestic and international problems. Read more about Ethics and Policy-Making »

The course will give students a set of hard skills associated with design-thinking and also allow students to create and deliver measurable improvements for an organization in the Durham community. Read more about Using Human-Centered Design »

Evaluation is an essential mechanism for informing program design, identifying evidence of impact and developing strategy for effectiveness. Over the course of the semester, students will examine central conceptual, pragmatic and empirical processes in evaluation in preparation to utilize... Read more about Evaluation Design and Practice »