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What does your Facebook picture say about you? We are bombarded by portraits on-line and in magazines, keep them to remember loved ones, and are required to carry them for identification, but may not often think about how they impact our view of ourselves and others. This survey will trace the history of photography to help us reflect on portraiture today.
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Have you ever visited a museum with an Asian art collection and been impressed by works of art from China and Japan? This course provides a comprehensive overview of arts in East Asia and a good opportunity to understand this region’s diverse cultural and artistic traditions. It helps students develop an international perspective and an ability to conduct comparative artistic and cultural studies.
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How can one create authentic and socially critical works of art in an age of conspicuous cultural consumption? This question has plagued artists from the mid 19th century to the present and led to the development of experimental art. This course explores the historical development of avant garde art and its ambivalent relationship with the mainstream. We will be looking primarily at Impressionism, Symbolism, Naturalism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and Bauhaus in the works of artists such as Manet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Kandinsky, Dali, and many more. While visuals arts will be our primary focus, we will also look parallels with music, poetry, and film. One of the major themes throughout is the way these artists collapsed the boundaries between life and art, making their own selves into works of art. For this reason the course will explore not only their works of art, but also the bohemian, counter-cultural scenes in which the artists lived. In addition to analyzing and discussing works of art, students will read multiple art manifestos. These manifestos help clarify the aims, successes, and failures of the avant garde in producing authentic art. Throughout the course we will make comparisons to the contemporary world and inquire as to whether the avant garde still exists today. If so, who is it, which classical avant garde methods do they employ, and which methods might work better in the modern world
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What stories are revealed about past civilizations by the art and architecture they created? In this course, students will explore how art and architecture can unlock the mysteries of the past and can teach us more about our own society. This course explores the cultures of six fascinating civilizations through their artistic achievements. Topics will include ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe, the Islamic world and the Maya. While this course is focused on the visual arts, interdisciplinary exploration of literary, dramatic and musical connections to works of art in these societies will also be introduced.
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America's generations have a beat, but can you dance to it? This course will introduce students to generational studies and American music of the later twentieth century. We will consider the experiences of the most recent generations in United States history (World War II, Silent Generation, Baby Boomer, Generation X, and Millenial) and the role of music in history. From Frank Sinatra to Bob Dylan, from Madonna to Jay Z, we will consider both the content and the form of music.
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The history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust are crucial for understanding the development and outlook of the 20th century. This two-week course provides an introduction into this history, looking at Nazi politics, culture and crimes in Germany and Europe during 1933 through 1945. Combining different perspectives of historical scholarship, this class will use a thematic approach to discuss the twelve years of the national socialist regime in Germany which brought terror and destruction to Europe and the world. The course will first scrutinize the Nazi’s rise to power and the creation of a totalitarian regime in Germany, introducing the students to Nazi, leaders, ideology, organizations, politics and propaganda. The second part of the course will be mainly interested in reconstructing life in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, focusing on Nazi culture and several groups within German society, in particular women and young people. In the final part of the class, the Holocaust and the Second World War will be the center of discussion. The course will also set Nazi Germany in historical context, briefly addressing World War I, the interwar years (referred to as the “Weimar Republic” in German history), and post-war German history with its legacy from the Nazi period.
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Recent events in the Middle East and talk of an impending ‘clash of civilizations’ have made the medieval Crusades newly relevant. In considering this protracted conflict from the perspectives of the three great civilizations that participated in it—Western Christendom, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world—we will discuss the latent forces unleashed by Pope Urban II in 1095, the creative and destructive impact of Crusading, and the evolution of the idea of holy war. Much of our time will be focused on close readings of medieval eyewitness accounts in order to uncover their motives and biases. Why did people go on Crusade? How did Muslim and Jewish communities respond to attacks? How did intimate contact between people of different faiths alter their perspectives? We will also look at the Crusades’ place in modern popular and political culture. Did the Crusades set the stage for later conflicts in the Middle East? Does the way we understand medieval religious strife affect how we view current events? The brief writing assignments will emphasize developing and sustaining a convincing argument through judicious use of evidence.
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How did the Cold War shape American culture and politics? Who gets to tell the story of Vietnam? Was racism just a Southern problem? Did sex, drugs, and rock n roll ruin the country? What is history and why does it matter how it is told? “History in Fact, History in Film: WWII-1980” considers these questions and more, as we “uncover” American history as a contested story rather than a static narrative of past events.
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Have you every thought academically about the music we listen to? This course explores the relationship between pieces of music and the societies which produce them. We will be looking at “classical” and “popular” music from the end of the 18th century to the present. Our examples will draw from a variety of times and places from Vienna in the 1790s to Paris in the 1890s to Seattle in the 1990s. What does the music of a particular society tell us about its values and concerns? How is it that music can be an expression of dominant political and cultural ideas, as well as a medium for critiquing those ideas? We will analyze music itself (words and notes) and the ways it gets heard through concerts and recordings. The class is part history, part musical appreciation, and part cultural criticism. Through various activities we will challenge ourselves to think critically about art and hear the social fabric woven into every musical production.
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The art of negotiation has never been more important than it is today. From the classroom to the boardroom, inter-personal skills and a clear conception of the give-and-take of personalities and tactical planning are vital elements of success in today’s world. This course is designed to encourage students to think critically about the history of theories of diplomacy and its relationship to diplomacy-in-practice. To encourage a collaborative learning style, the course will be divided into three parts:
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