Introduction to Global Arts and Identity I

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

This course is designed to introduce students to the arts as a sophisticated means of communicating personal and social values and understandings of identity. Identity (both self-created and imposed from without) is a major concern of artistic disciplines from across the globe. Topics covered will include selected aspects of Polynesian, Native American and other American arts. Students will complete the course with the skills necessary to approach art forms and cultures new to them with increased confidence and with an appreciation for the brilliant and complicated way in which values and identity are reflected in art from across the world and across disciplines.