Innovation and Impact

Fall 2025 CCCX 300 - Innovation and Impact Courses

• CCCX 316: Equitable Futures

  Section 01: Internet Culture & Open Access
  Taught by: Sean Andrews (Communication and Culture)
  Mondays 9:00-11:50am, 33, #302

  This course will consider the tensions and overlaps between open access and contemporary capitalist property regimes and the way digital platforms have allowed for greater access to the creation, distribution and consumption of culture. Looking at the social and technological innovations that have allowed the open web to flourish, the class will evaluate the impact cultures of open access and online collaboration have had on global information inequality. Students will also consider this impact as they create an innovative and collaborative development of open access resources. 

Spring 2025 CCCX 300 - Innovation and Impact Courses

• CCCX 310: Accessible Chicago

  Section 01: Reimagining Columbia Spaces
  Taught by: James "Jim" Van Manen (Communication and Culture)
  Tuesdays 3:30pm-6:20pm, 33, #302

  One of the purposes of Columbia College Chicago is to “to provide a college climate that offers students an opportunity to try themselves out, to explore, and to discover what they can and want to do.” Do the physical spaces at Columbia allow that to happen for everyone to their full ability? This Innovation and Impact course will look at our campus through the lenses of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Universal Design. Students will use methods including site visits, case studies, research, and more to better understand the application of disability law on public use buildings. Students will deliver a final project that strategizes to improve, educate, remediate, or advocate for universal design in barrier-free Columbia College building structures.

   
  

• CCCX 316: Equitable Futures

  Section 01: Internet Culture & Open Access
  Taught by: Sean Andrews (Communication and Culture)
  Tuesdays 9:00am-11:50am, 33, #302

  This course will consider the tensions and overlaps between open access and contemporary capitalist property regimes and the way digital platforms have allowed for greater access to the creation, distribution and consumption of culture. Looking at the social and technological innovations that have allowed the open web to flourish, the class will evaluate the impact cultures of open access and online collaboration have had on global information inequality. Students will also consider this impact as they create an innovative and collaborative development of open access resources. 

• CCCX 399: Innovation and Impact

  Section 01: A 21st Century World's Fair
  Taught by: Hilary Sarat-St. Peter (Communication and Culture)
  Thursdays 12:30pm-3:20pm, 618, #LL02

  In Imagining a 21st Century World’s Fair students will utilize observational, archival and analytical research methods to explore world expositions as problematic cases of innovation and impact. Students will examine primary and secondary sources, including eyewitness accounts, artifacts and fictional works. These sources will assist students in understanding how world expositions have sparked and sustained innovative projects such as business ventures, social and civic services, and creative projects in arts, media, the sciences, and design. The course will equip students with concepts and resources for understanding how race, gender, sexuality, disability and difference construct our past and future experiences. In the final weeks, students will employ a range of methodologies drawn from the course experiences and their own disciplinary backgrounds to build a collective vision for an equitable and inclusive 21st Century World’s Fair.