Creative Placemaking Minor (ARHU)
creativeplaceminor@umd.edu
go.umd.edu/creativeplace
Director: Professor Ronit Eisenbach, RA
The Creative Placemaking minor is a joint program of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and the College of Arts and Humanities. This minor educates students to leverage the power of the arts, culture, and creativity for the support of vibrant communities, by engaging with local stakeholders and arts practitioners. This minor currently offers two concentrations, one focusing on architecture design and the other on the visual arts. Although we envision expanding the minor beyond its two present concentrations, it is currently restricted to students majoring in Architecture and Studio Art.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Students will have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of and approaches to Creative Placemaking, as well as the political, social, economic, and ethical dimensions involved in Placekeeping and Placesharing
- Students will be able to evaluate places through inquiry, observation, research and the application of a critical lens to gain understanding of the complexity, richness and character of places and our relationship(s) to them.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to analyze and consider how design choices and artistic representations shape experience and elevate particular ways of knowing and being that reflect specific cultural heritage and values.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an appreciation of the roles that architects and artists can play in supporting the shaping of human landscapes as works in progress.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a technical and/or artistic skill that advances the collaborative and creative process and placemaking through visual, performative, written, and/or oral means.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to envision, conceive, collaborate, and create responsive works for and with places and people.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ARCH350 | (Introduction to Creative Placemaking) | 3 |
| Concentration (choose one of the following): | 6 | |
Concentration in Architecture (6 credits): | ||
ARCH450 | (Studio in Creative Placemaking) | |
Concentration in the Visual Arts (6 credits): | ||
ARTT426 | (Mural Making I) | |
ARTT427 | (Mural Making II) | |
| Interdisciplinary Studies in Arts and Humanities (ARHU439C Studio in Creative Placemaking) 1 | ||
| Electives (Choose at least 6 credits from the following): 2 | 6 | |
| Public Policy and the Black Community | ||
| African-American Literature and Culture | ||
| Introduction to Asian American Studies | ||
| Cultures of Everyday Life in America | ||
| Material Aspects of American Life | ||
| Introduction to Ethnography | ||
| U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture | ||
| Perspectives on Identity and Culture | ||
| Changing Climate, Changing Cultures | ||
| Design Thinking and Architecture | ||
| History of World Architecture I | ||
| History of World Architecture II | ||
| Design in Practice | ||
| People, Planet, and Profit: Building Sustainable Places | ||
| Experiential Learning | ||
| Selected Topics in Architectural History | ||
| Independent Studies in Architectural History | ||
| Measuring Sustainability in Architecture | ||
| Visual Communication For Architects | ||
| Great Cities | ||
| Selected Topics in Urban Design | ||
| Computer Applications in Architecture | ||
| Selected Topics in Architecture | ||
| Independent Studies in Architecture | ||
| Field Archaeology | ||
| Selected Topics in Architectural Preservation | ||
| Independent Studies in Architectural Preservation | ||
| Arts & Humanities in Social Innovation, Change, and Justice: Do Good Now | ||
| Humanists on the Move | ||
| Art and Activism | ||
| Monuments, Monumentality, and the Art of Memorial | ||
| Public Art | ||
| How (and Why) to Look at Art in the Era of Climate Change | ||
| Special Topics in Art History and Archaeology | ||
| Cities and the Arts | ||
| Experiential Learning | ||
| Special Topics in Art History and Archaeology | ||
| Ecuador: Andean Spaces-Traversing the Colonial City and the Natural World | ||
| Three-Dimensional Art Fundamentals | ||
| Intermediate Special Topics in Art | ||
| Elements of Drawing II | ||
| Introduction to Digital Art and Design Processes | ||
| Dangerous Art: Censorship or Subsidy | ||
| Special Topics in Study Abroad II | ||
| Three Dimensional Graphic Design | ||
| Seminar in Art Theory | ||
| Social Enterprise: Changing the World through Innovation and Transformative Action | ||
| Inequality: Determinants and Policy Remedies | ||
| Why Poetry Matters | ||
| Literary Maryland | ||
| Seeing the Present: Graphic Storytelling in the Age of Social Media | ||
| The Suburbs in American Literature and Film | ||
| Recovering Oral Histories | ||
| Special Topics in English | ||
| Environmental Geology | ||
| The Everyday and the American Environment | ||
| Special Topics in Historic Preservation | ||
| Civil Discourse or Urban Riot: Why Cities Don't (Often) Explode | ||
| Immigration and Ethnicity in America | ||
| The Historical Development of London | ||
| Urban Dreams and Nightmares: The Jewish Experience of Cities | ||
| What Does It Mean to be An American? | ||
| Metropolitan Change and Modern America: Cities, Suburbs, Hinterlands | ||
| Immigration and Ethnicity in the U.S. | ||
| Redesigning Health Care: Developing a Clinic to Meet Community Needs | ||
| Jerusalem in Antiquity: The History of Sacred Space in a Holy City | ||
| Urban Dreams and Nightmares: The Jewish Experience of Cities | ||
| Urban Agriculture: Designing and Assessing Edible Landscapes | ||
| History of Landscape Architecture | ||
| The Impact of Music on Life | ||
| Public Health in the City: Perspectives on Health in the Urban Environment | ||
| Foundations of Public Policy | ||
| Public Leaders and Active Citizens | ||
| Multicultural Psychology in the U.S. | ||
| Special Topics in Real Property Development | ||
| Inequality in American Society | ||
| The Sustainable City: Exploring Opportunities and Challanges | ||
| Diversity and the City | ||
| Selected Topics in Urban Studies | ||
| Total Credits | 15 | |
- 1
ARHU439C Studio in Creative Placemaking may be repeated to 6 credits if content differs.
- 2
Students may take no more than 3 elective credits from the same department without special approval by CRPM director; Special topics and independent studies courses will require the permission of the director.