INTR 01156 - Freedom and Artistic Expression in 20th Century America

Institution:

Rowan University

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Description:

This course is designed to help students understand what free speech is, the legal limits on free speech, and current debates on free speech. Additionally, students will come to understand aesthetics, aesthetics as related to the arts, and how aesthetics changed as America into and through the 20th century. Specifically, this course will enable the students to see how specific art works comment on current events or are a reaction to the suppression of speech/expression and how artists have be subjected to control while pursuing their arts in the United States during the 20th century. The course will also help students appreciate diversity by studying various works of art and various artists, and will help students understand democracy by examining free speech and related issues in art and artistic expression.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rowan.edu

Phone Number:

(856) 256-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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