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Subject: Art History (UG) (ARTH)
CRN: 22277
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 311
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Fine Arts
UG Core Human Diversity
This course covers traditional as well as contemporary sculpture, painting, architecture, and body arts of Melanesia, Island Southeast Asia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Students will learn how material culture, along with the concepts of mana and tapu sustained highly stratified cultures in places such as Hawaii and New Zealand . They will also study more egalitarian societies in which cultures maintained a balanced relationship with their environment through beliefs and social practices. Examples of such societies include the Asmat, Komoro, and culture groups that inhabit the Geelvink Bay region. Students will have the opportunity to work with objects from the American Museum of Asmat Art at the University of St. Thomas (AMAA@UST). This course fulfills the fine arts and human diversity requirements within the core curriculum.
4 Credits