Material & Visual Culture ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

People create objects and images, assigning them values and meanings that are specific to their culture, their time, and their place. In turn, those objects and images influence the ways in which people think, communicate, and learn. Often, these things express relationships of power and privilege, in their creation, their curation, and their exhibition. In this study, we will consider the ways people use images and objects to understand the world, create individual and group identities, explain their society and culture, formulate their group’s identity within the larger world, and express relationships of power and privilege.