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Course Criteria
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1.25 Credits
Consideration of Buddhist monasteries in China: as built environments set within architectural traditions; as centers for the realization of specific religious aims and practices, with distinctive visual programs to support those aims; and as nodes within social and economic landscapes. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A.) R. Birnbaum
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1.25 Credits
Conceptions of "pure lands" have engaged the imaginations of Mahayana Buddhists for more than two millennia. Course considers literary and visual representations of pure lands and their inhabitants, as well as related practice traditions. Special emphasis on Chinese traditions. Previous courses in Asian visual cultures and/or Buddhist studies recommended. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A.) R. Birnbaum
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1.25 Credits
Consideration of biographies and portraits in China as representations of human types and individuals, and the use of these representations as models for constructing lives. Attention to historical and social contexts, early times to present. Special focus on Chinese Buddhist traditions. A previous course that focuses on traditional China or Buddhist studies strongly recommended. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) R. Birnbaum
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1.25 Credits
Investigation of the role played by visual arts in fashioning racial identities of European-Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the United States. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) M. Berger
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1.25 Credits
Examines the history and significance of the subjects most prominent in Chinese painting during the past one thousand years, focusing on the cultural factors that made landspace a fundamental value in the Chinese tradition and the methods whereby painters created pictorial equivalents. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Examines material and conceptual phenomena of writing in Chinese visual culture. Focuses on the intersections of places and practices of writing through various inscribed sites, ranging from oracle bones, seals, and mountain facades to hand scrolls, architecture, and contemporary art. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Combination of theoretical perspectives on narrative from literary criticism, rhetoric, folklore, and film theory with art historical focus on images (cave temples, stone reliefs on stupas, scrolls, dance-drama, etc.) from India, Pakistan, China, Japan, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) K. Thangavelu
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1.25 Credits
Examines premodern and modern developments in the production, dissemination, and use of Japanese arts and crafts. Includes a unit focusing on the tea ceremony as a key site for shaping craft aesthetics. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Visual culture from the late Roman Empire to the early Byzantine Empire. Imperial triumphal monuments, Roman, early Christian, and Jewish catacombs, frescoes, manuscripts, and mosaics. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors; other students should contact instructor. One quarter of a 10-series course or a course in ancient or medieval culture is recommended as preparation. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A.) M. Evangelatou
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1.25 Credits
Consideration of the arts and architecture in Thera-vada Buddhist traditions in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. Topics and themes include ritual, relics, visual narrative, mural painting, contemporary art, mass-meditation movement, and political protest. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A.) B. Ly
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