Interpreting Art Experience: Social-cultural Perspectives

Catalog description

A ED 211W Interpreting Art Experience: Social-Cultural Perspectives (3) (W)(GA)(BA) This course meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements and is a "writing across the curriculum" course. Through reflective and exploratory writing about art experiences, participants in the course explore how art can teach and be learned within specific cultures and subcultures. Students investigate how interpretations and valuations of images and objects respond to and influence social-cultural perspectives. Students develop critical consciousness of art experiences as transformative learning and as collective memory. Explorations are guided through an introduction to theories of ways of knowing through art experiences such as embodied, sensory, relational, entangled, intersectional, collaborative, community-based, and through affect and lived experiences, among other theories. Students draw upon their own personal and cultural histories and consult accounts written by others to explore the role of visual art in contemporary life. Students research art experiences as case studies to individually and collectively discern social-cultural perspectives.