ART 257 AG - Global Encounters in the Arts

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4

This course explores various forms of visual expression produced by artists of diverse cultures from around the globe including Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Grounded in art history, this is an interdisciplinary course that looks at ways of thinking about art and its meanings from multiple perspectives. As we consider themes in visual expression and cultural production that are relevant across cultures, our study will focus on relationships between art, beliefs, cultural values, and social experience. We will engage post-colonial theories and global studies from relevant areas (in particular Native American studies, Latin American Studies, African studies including studies of the African Diaspora, and Pacific and Asian studies). Throughout the course, students will be asked to think critically about the impacts of colonization on the arts and peoples from around the world, and what it means to look at the arts of formerly colonized people from our vantage point in the West as compared to indigenous visions and voices of the same.

Offered Spring