At Wesleyan, a “college” is basically another word for a major, usually one composed of as many cross-disciplinary approaches as its wide and deeply resourced undergraduate course catalogue will permit. With the College of Design and Engineering Studies (CoDES), the university hopes to fill a need that has been long felt:
“We realized that there is a hunger from the students for this … it made sense to develop this college to provide a headspace and physical space for people who want to work at the intersection of all these different areas.”
Francis Starr, Foss Professor of Physics and one of the creators of the program
“At its core, we are interested in hands-on course work—learning through making. That is central to the studio model and to our engineering curriculum,” said Elijah Huge, associate professor of art and director of CoDES. “It will also be a fantastic hub for talking about questions of technology … how we, as humans, interface and interact with technology as makers.”
[Wesleyan Launches New College of Design and Engineering Studies](Wesleyan Launches New College of Design and Engineering Studies
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