Examines the role of pilgrimage in Hindu and Buddhist religious practice from the ancient to the modern periods, emphasizing art historical material from a representative survey of sites located throughout South Asia. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Examines what visual representations (feminine and masculine) reveal of gender in 19th- and 20th-century European and American culture; how images reflect norms of gender; and how we are conditioned to read images in gendered terms. Explores how femininity and masculinity were conceived during historical periods and how gender ideals changed in response to social, political, and economic pressures. Students encouraged to consider the fluid nature of 21st-century notions of ideal femininity and and masculinity and possible alternatives. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Sculptures, performances, and art theory of Roman Baroque artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. Early modern sources on Bernini's life and recent art history used to assess issues in cultural theory: embodiment, performance/performativity, visual and textual genres, space/time in sculpture. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior majors in history of art and visual culture, art, literature, history, philosophy, politics, theater arts, and sociology. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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What happens when, to control an object, it is destroyed? Examines destruction of art as a way of ending the object's life cycle, as a device of social tension/change, and as a colonial and post-colonial mechanism of religious/political control. Prerequisite(s): course 10E or permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A, E.)
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Medieval pilgrimage and contemporary tourism studied as social, cultural and economic phenomena with analogous structures. Examines some of the most significant medieval pilgrimage sites (Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela) through contemporary literature on tourism. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Compares how play and ritual construct worlds and regulate visual cultures—from dolls to "ritual" objects and performances. Attention given to areas where play and ritual overlap and the visual cultures that result. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A, E.)
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Examines selected issues in history of Chan (Zen) Buddhist traditions in China from medieval times to the present day. Concepts, methods, and visual expression of Chan practice situated through study of texts and visual materials. Prerequisite(s): course 114 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Theoretical discussions and Pacific Basin case studies on 1) definitions of cultural, ethnic, and national identities; 2) relationship between art, museums, and construction of historical and cultural narratives; 3) ways "tradition" defined in art practices and used by groups to assert an identity in their present. Participants first develop a theoretical framework and vocabulary for analyzing artistic production in a variety of cultures. Through specific case studies, will explore how art, architecture, and museums actively contribute to define and challenge ethnic and national identities. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A, E.)
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Addresses how Renaissance art both constructed and reflected cultural notions of gender and sexuality. In particular, course focuses on ideals of women with relation to marriage and politics; notions of masculinity and the effeminate male; homosexuality; and pornography. Recommended: background in Renaissance art and/or culture. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Why did the cult of the Virgin Mary become so important in Byzantine culture? Examines historical, cultural, theological, political, and social reasons for this development, seen through the interaction of Byzantine visual culture and literature. Prerequisite(s): course 104A, or juniors and seniors may enroll with permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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A survey of the principle ideological issues of the 20th century—attitudes toward sex, race, class, work, violence, and knowledge—viewed from the perspective of structuralist and semiological theories of culture. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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Analyzes ethnographic and auto-ethnographic representations of non-Western peoples. Films, video, ethnographies, novels, and journalism are considered, paying attention to specific histories of colonial and postcolonial contact which influence images of "culture" and "identity." (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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A study of the nature of religion and myth as well as their interrelationship; the beginnings and functions of myth, its major themes in various cultures, its relationship to sacrifice and ritual, and its role in selected religions and cultures throughout the world. Offered in alternate academic years. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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What is the concept of the human? How is the concept of the human related to race and gender? How has it changed from the 18th century to the 20th century? Focuses on the founding texts of the German Enlightenment. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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Traces the history of social movements in the late 19th- and 20th-century U.S., including populism, labor, socialism, Communism, the New Left, civil rights, feminism. Looks at the relationship between cultures of protest and mainstream popular and political cultures. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.)
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Christianity claims but one Jesus at its foundation; the sources, however, reveal many Jesuses. Is there a "real" Jesus among the memories of the earliest Jesusites, or among the Jesus-types of Late Antiquity? Or only contradictory choices? (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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Focuses on representations of race, class, and gender in contemporary popular culture images, particularly film and television. Attendance is required at both lectures and screenings. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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Engages histories of affect, the complex realms of the senses, feelings, emotions, and the body. Asks questions about the role of emotions in the making and unmaking of the contemporary political order and marginal cultures of feeling. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.)
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A critical evaluation of Hitler as a religious leader and his National Socialism as both a religious movement and an example of 20th-century political theology: a study of the relationship between religion and politics. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.)
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Using tools from the analysis of social history, visual and material culture, narrative, and laboratory and field practices, introduces students to modern science, technology, and medicine studies. Examples come especially from 20th- and 21st-century life and human and information sciences. May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.)
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Emphasizes how interventionist practices and activist art might inform students' political development and actions. Explores modes of expression and political identities that are useful after college. Leads to the production of alternatives to mainstream media. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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Offers an introduction to the idea of modernity from Kant to Freud, Niezsche to Fanon. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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Introduction to the relationship between philosophy and poetics in some major 19th- and 20th-century poets and thinkers. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 30.
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Survey of seminal work on ancient origins of the state, diverse geo-political systems of war and diplomacy, and consequences of the formation of the world market on the evolution of geo-political systems up to and beyond the wars of today. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 35.
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Brings together debates in feminism, contemporary art, and radical pedagogy, investigating the impact of the feminist revolution in the arts and humanities on debates in radical pedagogy and art as social practice.
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