07:080:200-201Seminar in Contemporary Art (3,3) Examination of the contemporary artist, architect, designer, filmmaker, media arts, and photographer in relation to modernist movements, socioeconomic institutions, evolving technologies, and ideologies. |
07:080:295Works on Paper: Investigations (3) Develops a sound understanding of the developments in contemporary printmaking and issues of multiplicity in photography, sculpture, and book forms. Uses readings, lectures, slides, and film presentations to familiarize students with current ideas, history, criticism, practices, and artists who deal with multiplicity. Visits to collections, studios, and ateliers. |
07:080:300Women Artists (3) Seminar and workshop focusing on the works of contemporary women artists and on their underlying ideas. Visits to artists` studios. Prerequisites: 01:082:105-106. |
07:080:301Third-World Artists (3) Study of artists who approach modernism from a grounding in ancient national, regional, or tribal cultures. Focus on painters, sculptors, and architects within anticolonialist movements. |
07:080:308History of Graphic Design (3) Explores the historical and contemporary grammar of graphic design. Students investigate factors shaping design including technology, fashion, and culture. Through an examination of the tradition in which they are working, students begin to place their work within the design discourse of today. Prerequisites: 07:080:200-201, 07:081:231-232; pre- or corequisite 07:081:331. |
07:080:309Issues in Design (3) Develops a critical understanding of postmodern design as change in an information society. Readings cover a broad scope of twentieth-century issues about technology and the impact of digital technology on graphic design and the profession. Open to juniors and seniors only. |
07:080:319Art/Craft/Design Connection (3) Study of the works, history, and movements of artists and designers in glass, clay, metal, wood, paper, fiber, industrial design, public art, city planning, and art education. Oral presentations, written projects, and journals. Open to juniors and seniors only. |
07:080:320Art/Craft/Design Connection (3) Study of artists, designers, history, and works in glass, clay, metal, wood, paper, fiber, fashion, industrial design, city planning, public art, architecture, museums, and education. Oral presentations, written projects, and journals. Open to juniors and seniors only. |
07:080:340Film/Video as a Visual Art (3) A critical examination of various artistic applications of film and video technologies from 1960 to the present. |
07:080:367Documentary Tradition (3) The historical and social roots of the documentary in film and photography, with an emphasis on viewing and discussing documentaries and reading about theoretical issues. |
07:080:369Nineteenth-Century Photography (3) Photographic processes, theories, and social effects. Technical developments from the camera obscura to daguerreotypes, paper and glass negatives and stereoscopes to the Kodak box camera; genres and trends from portraits of celebrities and Indians to family snapshots, and aesthetics from Pre-Raphaelitism to pictorialism. |
07:080:370Twentieth-Century Photography (3) The movements in European and American photographic production and theory-pictorialism and after, up to the present. |
07:080:400Video, Art, and Politics (3) How artists and other independents have used video in relation to matters of social life. Public events; the workings of race, class, and gender; the politics of private life, including sexuality; the medium of television itself. Formal strategies such as documentary, narrative, soap opera, melodrama, comedy, experimental, image processing, and performance. Prerequisites: 07:080:200-201. Open to juniors and seniors only. |
07:080:444 Critical Theory of Media (3) Almost thirty years after the first wave of filmmaking by women, and several decades of critical writing about women in film and video (on both sides of the camera), this course examines works dealing with one of the oldest identity categories, Jewishness, made by women who themselves are part of this tradition. As a highly contested, historically fractured and fractious identity formation, which has survived more than 5000 years, Jewish identity is a critical example of the precariousness of identity formation. Media studies courses and women`s studies courses have examined how race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality affect both the viewing and the creation of media. Students read critical texts and view a range of works, from documentary to narrative to experimental, which cuts across the issues of Jewishness and explores the concerns of Jewish women representing Jewish identity on film. |
