Wayne State University (WSU)
The City: Changing Detroit
Honors 1000 is the first half of the Honors Foundation Sequence. The course explores the history and development of the city of Detroit, including the challenges of de-industrialization and segregation, and guides students through the steps of civic engagement including how to identify and specify social problems, formulate workable solutions and advocate effectively for their implementation.
Black Detroit
Explores the historical, cultural and structural aspects of the Black urban experience in Detroit from the late 19th Century to the present, including the role that racism, urbanization and suburbanization have played in shaping racial, spatial and economic inequality in the Detroit Metropolitan area. Utilizes an interdisciplinary approach: to interrogate the social and cultural history of Black Detroit, to examine the various forms of Black social movement activism used by Black Detroiters in the 20th Century, and to analyze ways the shifting economic and political currents shaped, and reshaped racism, class, space, and resistance in the Detroit metropolitan area.
Detroit By The Numbers
Designed for students to experience mathematics as doable, meaningful, and relevant to their lives. Students will study the city of Detroit by analyzing data and reasoning through quantitative tools presented by local agencies, such as health, environment, education, arts, and sports.
College for Creative Studies (CCS)
Print: Detroit
Using the City of Detroit as its inspiration, students will employ various research methodologies as astarting point for creating prints. Projects will be approached through one of three perspectives:experiential, historical and political. Techniques introduced will include relief printing, laser cutting,print from found objects and silkscreen. Students will print both with and without a press to […]
Detroit: Past and Present
This course is designed to meet two broad objectives: 1) to provide a comprehensive introduction tothe historical narrative of the city of Detroit and the American urban experience; and 2) to practiceskills of critical analysis in research, writing and presentation. We will accomplish these objectives byresearching primary documents and artifacts; reading personal narratives; viewing selectdocumentaries […]
Care of the City: Detroit, Art, and the Practice of Reinvention
Care of the City explores new ways of thinking about the philosophy and poetics of the late moderncity, concentrating on contemporary Detroit. Through an exploration of new art practice, along withthe development of urban gardening as a form for what Mary Caroline Richards called the renewal ofart through architecture, this class will explore contemporary art […]
Documenting Detroit Revisited
This Special Topics [Fall 2021] course provides students the opportunity to produce a new body of photographic work including historical research, an archival re-photographic project related to the Detroit Historical Society’s (DHS) “Documenting Detroit” series-a photography project lead by Bill Rauhauser from 1972 to 1984-and new portraits of The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. […]
University of Michigan
Semester in Detroit
The Semester in Detroit spring/summer and fall programs accept undergraduate students from all schools and departments at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. All students, from First years to Seniors or Super Seniors are eligible to apply. Students from Grand Valley State University, UM-Dearborn, and UM-Flint are eligible to apply for fall programs only. The same […]
Detroit Initiative
In this experiential field course students are assigned to work with community-based organizations on a variety of community education projects. Internships are supervised by the instructor and program staff. COURSE: PSYCH 325 / AMCULT 321
Detroit Studies 