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4.00 Credits
This undergraduate seminar explores the politics of representation in African American photography. We will examine a diverse range of visual "texts," including daguerreotypes, collages, installations, photo-essays, image-text collaborations, and multiple traditions, including social documentary, protest, street photography, photo-journalism, modernism and portraiture. Throughout the semester we will discuss the relationship of photography to some central themes in black culture and creative expression, including confined space, invisibility vs. visibility, heroism, and historical "truth." We will set photographs in their historical context, discussing slavery, lynching, migration, segregation and poverty. Engaging the debates surrounding representation and race, we will consider to what extent photography has subverted racial identities and social hierarchies, attacked caricatures and stereotypes, furthered protest movements, and dismantled the master's house with the master's tools.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the multiple media methods of engaging Africana humanitarianism. Alongside a thorough review of both popular and independent activist media, students will be trained to use accessible technology to participate in global humanitarian communication networks. "Texts" we plan to engage include: Benetton Institutional Campaign advertisements, Jay Z's Water for Life and Red Hot + Riot (a musical tribute to Fela Kuti). Utilizing a combined seminar and art studio "practice" approach, "big ideas" will be transformed into succinct artistic statements
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on a central question: how do we define "African American music"? In attempting to answer this question, we will be thinking through concepts such as authenticity, representation, recognition, cultural ownership, appropriation, and origin(s). These concepts have structured the ways in which critics, musicians and audiences have addressed the various social, political and aesthetic contexts in which African American music has been composed (produced), performed (re-produced) and heard (consumed). In exploring the diversity of African American musical expression, we will question our assumptions about race, about music, and the links between the two. By taking a largely historical approach, we will see how African American music has both shaped and been shaped by the social contexts in which it is created and performed. Our readings and discussions will encompass African American music from spirituals and work songs to bebop and hip hop, from Duke Ellington to N.W.A., from Bessie Smith to Stevie Wonder, from James Reese Europe to Bob Marley, all of which will help us explore the rich set of meanings black music has held in the Americas for over four hundred years.
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4.00 Credits
This course is part of the Global Core of Columbia College. It provides a general introduction to some of the key intellectual debates in Africa by Africans through primary sources, including scholarly works, political tracts, fiction, art and film. Beginning with an exploration of African notions of spiritual and philosophical uniqueness and ending with contemporary debates on the meaning and historical viability of an African Renaissance, this course explores the meanings of 'Africa' and 'being African.' Field(s): AFR* Global Core.
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4.00 Credits
The operation of imagery and form in dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and writing; students are expected to do original work in one of these arts. Concepts in contemporary art will be explored.
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4.00 Credits
Attendance at the first class is mandatory. Limited to 15 students. Instructor determines class roster on first day of class. Examines aesthetic responses to collective historical traumas, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, AIDS, homelessness, immigration, and the recent attack on the World Trade Center.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Please see Barnard College Art History department Web site for instructions. Instructor permission required. Enrollment limited to 15. Factors involved in judging works of art, with emphasis on paintings; materials; technique, condition, attribution; identification of imitations and fakes; questions of relative quality.
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3.00 Credits
Satisfies the architectural history/theory distribution requirement for majors, but is also open to students wanting a general humanistic approach to architecture and its history. Architecture analyzed through in-depth case studies of major monuments of sacred, public, and domestic space, from the Pantheon and Hagia Sophia to Fallingwater and the Guggenheim. Discussion Section Required.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and the instructor's permission. Selected readings in 19th-century philosophy, literature and art criticism with emphasis on problems of modernity and aesthetic experience. Texts include work by Diderot, Kant, Coleridge, Hegel, Emerson, Flaubert, Ruskin, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Must receive departmental approval. Required for all thesis writers.
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