Global Perspectives in Art

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EDP,GS,H- IIn this course, students explore various visual and performing arts produced by non-western cultures from prehistory to the present. Employing the interdisciplinary methods of visual analysis utilized in Art History, students develop visual literacy and critically engage visual arts from around the world to consider distinctions and intersections between cultures and examine the social, political, economic, and historical contexts of art. Students examine art in relation to systems of power, privilege, inequality, and identity. Subject areas include the visual and performing arts of Asia, South America, Oceania, Indonesia, indigenous cultures of North and South America, Polynesia and the Middle East.