Precollege Summer Experience

Illustration

Create convincing digital illustrations that capture and advance what you can do with traditional media. Move between traditional and digital mediums to create unique final illustrations. Assignments will introduce you to working in a digital medium and learn to successfully incorporate the use of software programs into your creative process. Experimentation by combining both digital and traditional mediums is strongly encouraged.
Instructor: Rick Yang

Auto Design & 3D Modeling

Experience the fun and challenge of designing your own concept car for the future. Learn in a studio environment, much like working in a major automobile manufacturer’s advanced concept studio. You will be challenged to come up with original design ideas for a car manufacturer in the world of 2023. You’ll also learn the fundamentals of gestural sketching and automotive perspectives for both interior and exterior concepts and 3D digital modeling. You will create dozens of ideas and revise them based on feedback from the instructor and your classmates. Reveal your final designs at a mock international auto show with an audience of professional auto designers.
Instructor: Brian Baker, Designer and Automotive Design Department Adjunct Faculty

Photography & Studio Lighting

Develop your style, refine your Photoshop® skills and learn to work in a studio with available and artificial lighting. Create images digitally, with and without a camera, and learn to photograph and make striking images. Work with digital tools to manage, enhance and correct your images.
Instructors: Faculty, Photography Department 

Animation & Character Modeling

Use illustration drawing and ideation techniques with the latest industry software and tools to bring your own unique character to life. Create maquettes of your character in clay. Explore the world of computer-generated imagery by developing characters, their story and environment. Your digital models will be printed in color for exhibition alongside your clay model and illustration studies.
Instructor: Faculty, Illustration and Entertainment Arts Departments

Athletic Shoe Design

If you consider what something looks and feels like or how something’s form affects its function before buying it, then you know what product design is all about. In this section, students will design their own athletic shoe. Not only will your design need to look good, but it will need to function and serve a specific purpose. Use research, problem solving and material exploration to make the next great athletic shoe.

Instructor: Steve Schock, Product Design Faculty

Designing Interior Space, Furniture and Light

Discover the many trend-setting and experimental opportunities the field of interior design offers. Take on design challenges like laying out spaces, identifying and creating inspirational color and material combinations, and designing furniture. You will even develop a lighting plan to tie it all together.
Instructor: Faculty, Interior Design, Crafts and Product Design Departments

Advertising Campaign Development

Have you ever thought about what goes into making an ad? Here’s your chance. Start by identifying your target market, then understand the marketing problem, and offer a creative solution in a creative brief.  Then, use an industry tried-and-true process: visually identify your market, brainstorm ideas, turn ideas into compelling headlines and advertising copy, and create ads for various communication outlets. Discover your good idea and learn how to make it Great.
Instructor: Faculty, Advertising: Design Department

Foundation Drawing

This course is the first course at the undergraduate level and does not assume that the student has any strongly developed drawing skills. It is further assumed that the experienced student profits by exposure to a systematic exploration of drawing methods. Its primary purpose is to introduce the student to basic concepts in drawing and then, begin to develop more creative and expressive responses. Drawing I moves the student into a more volumetric understanding of drawing as well as considerable emphasis on observational, formal composition and design.

This course will meet the CCS Foundation DFN 101 requirement for 3.0 Foundation credits.
Instructor: Faculty, Foundation Department

Graphic Design

Basic graphic design and the elements of typography and composition are explored
and discussed. Develop a visual campaign strategy to promote a cause, event or location using the following visual promotional formats: poster, billboard, website, a “give away” piece, and magazine ad. Learn to use Adobe® InDesign® and Photoshop® to lay out and produce printed solutions for your design challenge presentations.
Instructor: Edward Donald and Lynette Bohn, CE Department Faculty

Two Sites, One Campus

Programs are run on either the Ford Campus or at the Taubman Center. Location is dictated by the curricula and their related facility requirements. CCS provides regular shuttle service with valid CCS ID between sites. All students will live and dine in the Taubman Center.

Campus Safety

CCS has one of the safest college campuses in Michigan. You’ll be able to study, learn and create in an environment where you feel safe and secure. CCS security staff patrol both the Taubman Center and Ford Campus regularly, and are posted 24/7 inside the residence hall, parking structures, and in campus buildings. The parking structures are only accessible with a valid ID card. Campus safety statistics are available on our Website.

Enrollment Options

2 Weeks - Non-Credit

• Resident – $1,995
  includes: room and board, required art materials, full-meal plan, on- and off-site activities, studio time
• Commuter Full Meals - $1,695
  Includes: required art materials, full meal plan, on- and off-site activites, studio time
• Commuter – $1,225
  includes: required art materials, lunch-only meal plan, on- and off-site activities, studio time

3 weeks - 3.0 College Credits

• Resident – $2,995
  includes: room and board, required art materials, full-meal plan, on- and off-site activities, studio time, college credits
• Commuter Full Meals  -$2,449
  Includes: required art materials, full meal plan, on- and off-site activites, studio time, college credits
• Commuter – $2,225
  includes: required art materials, lunch-only meal plan, on- and off-site activities, studio time, college credits

Live on Campus or at Home

Life as a Resident

Live on campus in the CCS-supervised historic, and newly renovated, A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education. The building combines living, learning and administrative services under one roof, and is accessible only with an authorized CCS ID card. Precollege students must adhere to the residence hall curfew of 10 PM during the week and 11 PM on Fridays and Saturdays. Students live in shared loft-like spaces with access to common areas, full-service cafeteria and an exercise facility. CCS’s Assistant Residence Life Coordinator, Resident Assistants and current CCS undergraduate Mentors also reside in the Taubman Center and are responsible for chaperoning and managing student activities and the living environment. No Precollege student may be away from campus overnight unless prior written request, and permission, from a parent or guardian is pre-approved by the Continuing Education office. Parents are requested to keep overnight sign-outs to a minimum. Permission forms and detailed information about curfew are included in the confirmation packet sent to students upon acceptance.

Life as a Commuter

All the benefits of attending, but you sleep at home. You are required to attend all mandatory classes, open studios and activities five days a week. Some evening hours will be required. You are encouraged to attend all optional activities on evenings and weekends. You will be given access to the parking decks, and computer labs during building hours only. Commuter students will not have access to the housing facility, but are encouraged to meet up with other Precollege students in lounges, computer labs, the Café or cafeteria, libraries, and the “Oval” grassy area in the center of Ford Campus.

Meal Plans & Food Services

All students are required to purchase one type of meal plan. All meals will include options for vegetarians. Students with special dietary needs should contact the Precollege & Continuing Studies Office. All dietary restrictions or preferences cannot be accommodated. Students with severe allergies are encouraged to bring supplemental food items with them. All students will have access to additional cash purchases at the cafeteria or food service areas on-site. All students will have access to microwaves and vending machines in common areas.

Full Meals for Residents

• Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner
  Mon – Fri, brunch and dinner Sat – Sun

Full Meal Plan

• Optional for commuter students
• Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner on weekdays only

Lunch-Only Plan

• Required for commuter students
• Not available for resident students
• Includes lunch on weekdays only

Student Conduct

CCS’s Precollege Summer programs are designed for independent young people who will take initiative both in and outside of the classroom. If parents and their children are seeking a somewhat sheltered environment, they should consider the nature of this program before applying.

All students participating in CCS’s Precollege Summer programs must sign, and abide by, the CCS Code of Student Conduct and Additional program rules which are sent to all students once enrolled in the program. Students are expected to understand and accept all Precollege Summer program rules and regulations and to observe them fully during their time at CCS. Precollege students are expected to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct, and be respectful of personal and College property and of the rights of other students and staff. Both parents and applicants are required to affirm their knowledge and acceptance of these policies and rules; a statement to this effect must be signed by both parties prior to arriving on campus. All social and educational activities are planned by the College for Creative Studies Precollege & Continuing Studies Department.

CCS’s Precollege Summer programs are designed for independent young people who will take initiative both in and outside of the classroom. If parents and their children are seeking a somewhat sheltered environment, they should consider the nature of this program before applying.

Students who violate College policies, procedures and regulations will be subject to disciplinary action. Violations of college policies and regulations may result in such sanctions as a warning, probation and even dismissal. Certain violations, such as possession or use of alcohol or drugs, will result in immediate dismissal. Such actions are not a substitute for civil or criminal proceedings. All students, whether on or off campus, are also subject to local, state and federal laws. In addition, CCS reserves the right to dismiss students at any time for conduct determined to be detrimental to the CCS community or that violates federal, state or local law.