Architecture and Urban Design
30: Architectural Studies
Instructor: Sylvia Lavin
Explores the role of the built environment in social, cultural and political life: how buildings are constructed, what they mean, the effects they have on the world, and the ways they imagine new futures, and shape private and public life. Focuses on a series of contemporary case studies for what each reveals about new possibilities for shaping the world in which we live; emphasis on how architecture extends to cities, roads, books, films, etc. Consideration of the historical context and cultural genealogy of particular buildings and environments, the material and economic conditions of building, etc.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
Art
31A: Modernism
Instructor: Michael Schreyach
Impact of modernist thought on art and society from mid-19th through early-20th centuries. Exploration of origins, development, theory, and practice of modernism in Europe and the U.S.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
100: Issues in Contemporary Art: The Field of Art
Instructor: Andrea Fraser
Over the past 20 years, the field of art has exploded into a global, multi-billion
dollar industry with an enormous expansion of the art market
as well as the number of institutions and individual participants. But what?the
art world? What distinguishes art from other fields of culture? How do art
works and practices acquire cultural and economic value? This course will
offer a critical survey of art as a social field with a focus on the contemporary
art world. It will examine key institutions such as museums, galleries, alternative
spaces, international exhibitions, art fairs, art schools,
and art magazines, as well as the roles and relationships of artists, art
dealers, curators, critics, collectors, and audiences. Readings will combine
perspectives from social, cultural and economic theory with art history,
contemporary art criticism and practice.
Arts and Architecture
10: Arts Encounters: Exploring Arts Literacy in the 21st Century
Instructor: Robert Winter
Through series of direct encounters with art and artists across a global range of practices, course equips students with kinds of critical skills that enhance their understanding of, and sharpen their appetite for, a wide range of artistic practices. Attendance at performance/art events outside normal class schedule is mandatory.
Fulfills a GE requirement for students in L&S, SOAA, TFT, SEAS, and Nursing.
Design | Media Arts
9: Art&Science&Technology
Instructor: Victoria Vesna
Exploration and survey of cultural impact of scientific and cultural innovations, technology-driven art inspired by science, and art/science collaborative projects. Introduction to vast array of cutting-edge research taking place on campus; scientific guest lecturers. Emphasis on art projects that use technology and respond to new scientific concepts.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
10 - Design Culture: Introduction
Instructor: Erkki Huhtamo
Understanding the design process, with emphasis on development of a visual language; study of historic, scientific, technological, economic, and cultural factors influencing design in our physical environment.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors. |
Ethnomusicology
20C Musical Cultures of the World: Asia
Instructor: Helen Rees
Traditional and popular musics from many different countries, with introduction to basic ethnomusicological concepts and development of listening and analytical skills.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
30 Music and Media
Instructor: TBD
Exploration of ways music is mediated to people by industry, technologies, and corporations. Survey of leading theorists of media and exploration of case studies.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
40 Music and Religion
Instructor: Ankica Petrovic
Survey of nature, role, and power of music in religious rituals around world,
covering music and ritual of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam, as well as religious traditions of Native Americans and syncretic religious
practices in Americas such as African American gospel music, Brazilian Candomble,
Cuban Santerķa, and Haitian vodoun.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
M119 - Cultural History of Rap
Instructor: Cheryl Keyes
Introduction to development of rap music and allied forms, with emphasis on musical and verbal qualities, philosophical and political ideologies, gender representation, and influences on cinema and popular culture.
120A Development of Jazz
Instructors: Kenny Burrell and Gerald Wilson
Introduction to jazz; its historical background and its development in the U.S.
Music
15 Art of Listening
Instructor: Peter Rutenberg
Acquisition of listening skills through direct interaction with live performance, performers, and composers. Relationship of listening to theoretical, analytical, historical, and cultural frameworks. Music as aesthetic experience and cultural practice.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
World Arts and Cultures
22 - Intro to American Folklore Studies
Instructor: Kerry Noonan
Cultural/historical survey of role of folklore in development of American civilization and of influence of the American experience in shaping folklore in American society; attention also to representative areas of inquiry and analytical procedures.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
100A Art As Moral Action
Instructor: Peter Sellars
One's ability to distinguish between right and wrong action is culturally intuited, nurtured, and developed. Study of cultural strategies of moral engagement, persuasion, and inquiry in personal and public life, including acts of conscience and civil disobedience.
47 - World Dance Histories
Instructor: Sandra Chatterjee
Comparative framework for looking at dance practices through time as they have developed around world, questioning relation of dance to culture and politics and providing students with tools for investigating histories of any given dance form.
Fulfills a GE requirement for non-majors.
144 - Make Art/Stop AIDS
Instructor: David Gere
How can artists participate in the global movement to stop spread of HIV/AIDS? Arts, working in close connection with public health and epidemiology, are effective tool in AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. Review of literature of AIDS cultural analysis that emerged in late 1980s in relation to gay men in the U.S. and expansion of reach of that literature by testing how it applies to new political, social, and sexual exigencies that characterize epidemic in its international hot spots such as India, China, South Africa, and Brazil. Historicizing of cultural activism engendered by arts in relation to epidemic in the U.S. to understand how arts can function to save lives around world. Volunteering with AIDS organization in Los Angeles for approximately 20 hours and series of in-class theory-in-action projects included.
C152/C252 - History and Theory of Modern/Postmodern Dance
Instructor: Susan Foster
This course focuses on the modern dance tradition in the U.S., not as a succession of artists and performances, but as a reservoir of aesthetic issues and inquiries, initiated by choreographers in dialogue with one another over the course of the 20th century. The course will be less concerned with the performance history of these arists than with the epistemological underpinnings of artsts distinctive choreographic approaches. Through both written and choreographed studies, we will interrogate their dances as theorization of corporeality.
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