For education majors and related fields, this course probes intersections of visual culture, diversity, contemporary art, and pedagogy. Students investigate the pedagogical implications of visual culture studies grounded in critical theories of diversity, addressing race, ethnicity, gender, sex, disability, and class in the U.S. Relevant contemporary art is explored for educational significance.
This course offers students interested in understanding the importance of visual arts in schools, museums, and community settings the opportunity to facilitate art experiences for learners. This course takes place at the Athenaeum, where students take on instructional roles for an after-school art program for middle school learners. More information about the program can beContinue reading “Art Education in School, Museum, and Community”
Academic Area: Art Education
Course Reference Number (CRN): Undergrads: 64130 | Grads: 64131
Through lecture, observation, practicum placements in schools, assigned readings, and artmaking, students will gain an understanding of theoretical foundations, content, curriculum and instructional methods used to teach art to secondary level students. This is a service-learning course, meaning that it is a credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized service activity thatContinue reading “Secondary Curriculum in Art Education”
Academic Area: Art Education
Instructor(s): Lynn Sanders-Bustle
Course Reference Number (CRN): Undergrads: 46006 | Grads: 46007
Academic Area: Art Education
Course Reference Number (CRN): Undergrads: 28871 | Grads: 28887
Academic Area: Art Education
Instructor(s): Callan Steinmann
Course Reference Number (CRN): Undergrads: 67373 | Grads: 67374
Academic Area: Art History
Course Reference Number (CRN): Undergrads: 74142 | Grads: 74143
Exploring immersion across bodies, spaces, and stories “It’s so immersive.” Everyone says it; everyone means something different. What do we actually mean? This studio makes immersion concrete by treating real-time, liveness, and presence as our raw materials. We range from being “immersed” in environments (forests, water, built sites) to being absorbed inside a story, game,Continue reading “Thematic Inquiry: The Immersion Lab: Live, Embodied & Playable Experiences”
Instructor(s): Ash Smith
Course Reference Number (CRN): Undergrads: 42248 | Grads: 57907
Geographies of Walking: Interdisciplinary Mapping, Storytelling, and Drawing This advanced thematic inquiry explores walking as a critical, aesthetic, and spatial practice for traversing disciplinary boundaries across art, design, environmental geography, and urbanism. Anchored in the expanded fields of ambulatory art and design studies, this course invites students to engage with the terrain of the everydayContinue reading “Thematic Inquiry: Geographies of Walking: Interdisciplinary Mapping, Storytelling, and Drawing”
Instructor(s): James Enos
Location: Rm. 202 Thomas St. Art Complex (2691)
Course Reference Number (CRN): Undergrads: 42246 | Grads: 40580