The World Arts and Culture major emphasizes a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to the study of art making, community engagement, and multimedia analysis. The five required preparation for the major courses introduce students to the intersectionality evidenced in the collective work of the faculty. A lower-division, practice-based course enables students to connect the practice and study of art-making across a variety of genres and forms. In three lower-division seminars, students are prepared for the major by studying theoretical concepts of culture, the tensions between local and global art perception, and the diverse ways that colonialism has been understood and resisted around the globe.

Building upon the foundational preparation courses, the required core courses of the major expand interpretive lenses to include ethics of representation, methods of research, an opportunity to build upon one’s practice-based experience, and a one-credit course that connects students with faculty advisers to increase awareness of field-specific scholarship, disciplinary methods, and various genres and forms for intellectual output, particularly as these might be articulated with post-graduate aspiration.

Mga Resulta ng Pagkatuto

1. Demonstrated critical analyses of a variety of approaches to visual and performance-based art-making and activism in cross-cultural contexts

2. Interpretation of and, in some cases, conduction of field-based research within specific communities

3. Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, plan, and exercise art, curatorial, and/or ethnographic projects that reflect a dynamic dialog between theory and practice

4. Demonstrated sensitivity to diversity and cultural differences, particularly as articulated within various forms of governance, national and international policy, transnational art and curatorial practices, and museum and heritage sites

5. Development of informed interpretations, not only of the way that art functions within communities but also of how the links between art and community and created and represented

6. Articulation of the value of civic engagement within a variety of arts-oriented social contexts