Total credit for a concentration in Sustainability & Social Practice: 15.
Students must take one required studio course, as well as two studio electives and two academic electives, and they have access to courses throughout the MICA curriculum that focus on ecology, sustainability, urban studies, and social engagement. The menu of electives is designed to be flexible and will adjust to new course offerings; this gives students the opportunity to design a progression of courses that accurately supports their respective backgrounds and developing interests, a necessity in such a rapidly changing field. Students will also participate in a year-end colloquium session involving student presentations, discussion, and project exhibitions.
Requirements for the Sustainability & Social Practice Concentration
Course Title |
Course # |
Credits |
| Climate Change and Sustainability for Artists and Designers | GFA 343 | 3.0 |
| Choose two from the following: | ||
| Object Design: Body/Material/Form | AD 220 | 3.0 |
| Introduction to Object Design | AD 252 | 3.0 |
| Urban Design | AD 353 | 3.0 |
| Fabric of Conscience | FB 370 | 3.0 |
| Finding Baltimore | FF 148 | 3.0 |
| Community Arts & Documentary | FILM 330 | 3.0 |
| Sustainable Graphic Design | GD 314 | 3.0 |
| Design Coalition | GD 323 | 3.0 |
| Branding | GD 360 | 3.0 |
| Package Design | GD 365 | 3.0 |
| Design for Change | GD 433 | 3.0 |
| Water | GFA 250 | 3.0 |
| Mining Culture | GFA 275 | 3.0 |
| Cultural Perspectives | GFA 307 | 3.0 |
| Visual Ideas | GFA 312 | 3.0 |
| Illustrating Opinion | IL 350 | 3.0 |
| Internship | INT 402 | 3.0 |
| Social Practice Studio | IS 240 | 3.0 |
| Green Woodworking | IS 280 | 3.0 |
| Sustainable and Recyclable Materials | IS 287 | 3.0 |
| Baltimore Urban Farming | IS 316 | 3.0 |
| Public Art and Art Interventions | IS 319 | 3.0 |
| Water Works | IS 355 | 3.0 |
| Urban Resilience | IS 435 | 3.0 |
| Environmentally Concerned Photography | PH 343 | 3.0 |
| Socially Engaged Photography | PH 346 | 3.0 |
| Choose two from the following: | ||
| Food and Architecture |
AH 349 | 3.0 |
| Architecture, Art & the Open City | AH 377 | 3.0 |
| Turning Art into Nature | AH 414 | 3.0 |
| Art Meets Ecology | AH or PHIL 435 | 3.0 |
| Colonial/Post Colonial/Post Modern | AH 481 | 3.0 |
| Conflict and Coexistence | AH 485 | 3.0 |
| Urban History: Pre-Industrial City | IHST 226-IH1 | 3.0 |
| Utopia in Literature & History | IHST 249-IH1 | 3.0 |
| United States and the World | IHST 251-IH2 | 3.0 |
| History of the American City | IHST 271-IH2 | 3.0 |
| Man, Animal, Machine | IHST 273-IH2 | 3.0 |
| Urbanism: Modern American City | IHST 276-IH2 | 3.0 |
| Ecology and the Imagination | LA 357 | 3.0 |
| Eco Poetics: Language/Mind/Ecology | LIT 418 | 3.0 |
| Environmental Literature | LIT 442 | 3.0 |
| Scientific Reading: Earth Science | NSCI 201B | 3.0 |
| Scientific Reading: Climatology | NSCI 201C | 3.0 |
| Environmental Science | NSCI 210 | 3.0 |
| Biodiversity | NSCI 229 | 3.0 |
| The Scientific Revolution | PHIL 277-IH2 | 3.0 |
| Religion & American Consumerism | RELG 369-TH | 3.0 |
| Social Problems: Anthro View | SSCI 215 | 3.0 |
| Poverty & Homelessness | SSCI 387 | 3.0 |
| Native American Studies | SSCI 275-IH2 | 3.0 |
| Capitalism and Its Critics | SSCI 306-TH | 3.0 |
| Globalism & Its Discontent | SSCI 323-TH | 3.0 |
| Activism and Social Theory | SSCI 345-TH | 3.0 |
| Urban Theory | SSCI 376-TH | 3.0 |