Arts and Cultures of Star Wars

4 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course explores the use of arts and cultures from throughout our world for the creation of fictive peoples and worlds in the Star Wars universe. As the fictional universe draws on a spectrum of real world groups, so does it bring to bear discussions of race, ethnicity, and politics. Students will explore the wealth of material media used to formulate fictive narratives and how the processes of such creations bring to bear numerous social and cultural issues of our own world.