Topics course on The Arts in Context, where role of the arts in human society is examined in various contexts.

This course will train students to understand and evaluate global cultures from a critical and culturally sensitive perspective.

Located in Australia's tropical north, Arnhem Land has long been one of the epicenters of the modern Aboriginal art movement. The art of the region opens a window onto another world: a world in which ancestral spirits remain a constant presence in the land. Using the world-class holdings of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, we'll explore the art of Arnhem Land from 1911 to the present.

From the Romanesque churches along the Pilgrimage Routes to the new Gothic architecture at St. Denis outside Paris and on to late medieval artistic production in Prague, this course examines profound and visually arresting expressions of medieval piety, devotion, and power made by artists from roughly 1000-1500. Throughout our investigations, particular attention will be paid to the contributions of important medieval women.

The course introduces experimental 16mm film production as a practice of visual art. These courses include technical, historical, and theoretical issues that apply to cinematography and its relationship to the traditional visual arts.

This course examines the flourishing of queer artistic production (painting, sculpture, film, photography, performance, and conceptual art) in the United States after World War II. It will chart how--despite attempts to censor or erase them--artists working with lesbian, gay, otherwise non-heterosexual, and/or transgender themes made major contributions to the development of art, culture, society, and politics in the United States.

Introductory survey of principles and practices of arts administration, as the crossroads of art and audience.

Course continues the practice of 16mm film or digital video experimental production with an emphasis on a completed piece for public screenings or exhibitions. Prerequisite: ARTS 3370 or ARTS 3372.

The class is an overview of art made in the service of Islam in the Central Islamic Lands, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia. Discussion sections offer more in depth discussions of larger issues raised in the lectures.

This course will train students to understand and critically evaluate comparative, premodern, global cultures.