| Course Title: Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas |
| Start Date: 09/06/2023 End Date: 12/19/2023 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2023 |
| Description: This course introduces students to art and architecture created by peoples of African descent around the world. Through case studies spanning centuries and continents, students encounter a dazzling array of artforms that reflect changing contexts and cultural entanglements, fuse new and old belief systems, and flourish while transcending borders. Selected topics vary, but themes may include gender; performance; resistance to settler colonialism and enslavement; modernity and modernism; and museums, decolonization, and repatriation. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Kymberly Newberry | newbe22k@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/06/2023 - 12/19/2023 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | ART - Art | 106A | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| CRPE0001 | CRPE-1: CRPE - Major Pathway/Minor | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE major pathway and the CRPE minor. |
| CRPE0002 | CRPE-2: Africana Studies - Major Pathway/Minor | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Africana Studies major pathway and the CRPE Africana Studies minor. |
| CRPE0007 | CRPE-RE: Representation Courses | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Representation requirement. |
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 38 | Enrollment: 35 | Available: 3 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |