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Subject: Art History (UG) (ARTH)
CRN: 41759
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 203
Online
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Fine Arts
UG Core Human Diversity
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Fine Arts
OR
Global Perspective AND Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Sustainability (SUST)
CommGood/Community-Engaged
This course surveys historical and contemporary art forms of Oceania, a region that includes Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Sculpture, painting, architecture, and body arts will be explored in relation to gender roles, identity, repatriation, and Western influence. 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. We will also study egalitarian societies in which a balanced relationship is maintained with natural environments through daily practices and spiritual beliefs. Students will work with objects from the American Museum of Asmat Art at the University of St. Thomas (AMAA@UST). Films and other digital resources will be used to illustrate how Pacific cultures have changed over time.
4 Credits