Sydney: Creative Arts and Heritage

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course uses the creative arts to explore Australia's multiple histories, creative expressions, and ethnic and racial formations. Based in Sydney and surrounds, it investigates how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people have interacted with immigrants starting from early colonial times, using the creative arts as a primary lens to evaluate the nation's competing traditions. The final capstone will be an arts practice workshop with students from a local university. This course satisfies Stanford's WAY-A-II (Aesthetic and Interpretive Inquiry) undergraduate breadth requirement.