| Overall Rating | Silver |
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| Overall Score | 63.24 |
| Liaison | Victoria Ho |
| Submission Date | Feb. 8, 2024 |
OCAD University
AC-3: Undergraduate Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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3.00 / 3.00 |
Victoria
Ho Advisor, Strategic Sustainability Office of Diversity, Equity & Sustainability Initiatives |
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Majors, degrees and certificate programs
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Name of the sustainability-focused undergraduate degree program:
Cross-Disciplinary Art: Life Studies
A brief description of the undergraduate degree program:
Cross-Disciplinary Art: Life Studies
Exploring cross-disciplinary studio approaches in a collaborative learning environment, students explore speculative ideas of life, physical existence and materiality. Life Studies draws upon diverse perspectives and practice-based approaches from art, the sciences and the humanities. Informed by contemporary perspectives of ecology, biology, technology, and sustainability, each student builds an ideas-based studio practice in any medium through engagement with the living, the body, and decolonial thought.
Students will move through this specialization by studying across course offerings in both Art and Liberal Arts & Sciences.
Exploring cross-disciplinary studio approaches in a collaborative learning environment, students explore speculative ideas of life, physical existence and materiality. Life Studies draws upon diverse perspectives and practice-based approaches from art, the sciences and the humanities. Informed by contemporary perspectives of ecology, biology, technology, and sustainability, each student builds an ideas-based studio practice in any medium through engagement with the living, the body, and decolonial thought.
Students will move through this specialization by studying across course offerings in both Art and Liberal Arts & Sciences.
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Additional degree programs (optional)
Industrial Design
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A brief description of the undergraduate degree program (2nd program):
Guided through international faculty and innovative curriculum, the Industrial design program situates its practice within the rapid challenges of the 21stcentury with all its current and future challenges and need for resiliency and sustainable growth. At the center of Industrial Design (ID) lies the relationships between users, makers and designers. Learn about the relations and interactions that design can create between users, resources, technology, culture, economy and ecology.
Studying ID at breaking out of conventions, get acquainted with multiple perspectives and different ways of knowing and design ethics, understanding the future as a material through which sustainable products, services and interactions can be created within social, economic and planetary boundaries.
Studying ID at breaking out of conventions, get acquainted with multiple perspectives and different ways of knowing and design ethics, understanding the future as a material through which sustainable products, services and interactions can be created within social, economic and planetary boundaries.
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Minors and concentrations
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Name of the sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration:
Sustainability Minor
A brief description of the undergraduate minor or concentration:
The Sustainability Minor draws on the existing courses and expertise at OCAD University to develop a nexus of courses that develop a student’s capacity to engage with the broad environmental and social aspects of sustainability.
Students will grapple with issues of sustainability and develop creative responses to the pressing need for socially and ecologically responsible practices in local and global contexts. This interdisciplinary minor allows students to create a pathway focused on environmental and social sustainability.
Students who complete the Sustainability Minor will understand the scientific and ethical principles underpinning the contemporary issues of sustainability. Students will acquire knowledge of the methodologies of science and the humanities and how they intersect on sustainability issues. They will apply the knowledge they gain from the core and elective courses in the minor to their own creative practices. The minor allows flexibility for students to bring the theoretical understanding and skills into their own studio. Students will also engage with multiple specializations and learn critical communication skills within interdisciplinary groups. These skills will position students to greatly influence the discourse of sustainability within the creative economy and society as a whole.
Students from any faculty and program are able to declare this minor.
Students will grapple with issues of sustainability and develop creative responses to the pressing need for socially and ecologically responsible practices in local and global contexts. This interdisciplinary minor allows students to create a pathway focused on environmental and social sustainability.
Students who complete the Sustainability Minor will understand the scientific and ethical principles underpinning the contemporary issues of sustainability. Students will acquire knowledge of the methodologies of science and the humanities and how they intersect on sustainability issues. They will apply the knowledge they gain from the core and elective courses in the minor to their own creative practices. The minor allows flexibility for students to bring the theoretical understanding and skills into their own studio. Students will also engage with multiple specializations and learn critical communication skills within interdisciplinary groups. These skills will position students to greatly influence the discourse of sustainability within the creative economy and society as a whole.
Students from any faculty and program are able to declare this minor.
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