| Description | Continuing with the development of modes of
literacy and visual/textual analysis initiated in
HUMN 100: Academic Core I, this course will
prioritize how representation makes meaning, and
how art, media, design, and textual practices
participate in a broader social and political
sphere. Analysis of both visual images/objects
and texts from a variety of historical periods,
from the 16th century to the present day, will be
emphasized through shared case studies (from
Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the
Americas), keywords, and themes. Throughout, an
integrated approach to the humanities will be
prioritized, involving the development of
critical thinking, writing skills, and class
participation and engagement. Combining weekly
lectures and smaller breakout seminar sessions
for art, design and media, students will be
exposed to the specificities of a Humanities
curriculum (drawing from Art Media + Design
History, Visual Culture, English, Composition and
Rhetoric, and Cultural and Media Studies), and to
the conceptual and practical skills necessary for
further courses in Critical + Cultural Studies,
as well as their subsequent studies as a whole.
As students persist in building the skill set
necessary for critical and contextual inquiry,
emphasis will be placed on
processes of visual perception, the cultural
meaning of images and objects, and their many
intersections with knowledge, power, and
technology. Throughout, students will be
encouraged to situate their own practice in
relation to a broader history of representation,
in order to articulate their own perspective on
what it means to participate in cultural
production. |
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