| Course Title: Ethics Lab: 'The Artist's Responsibility to the Audience' |
| Start Date: 10/26/2026 End Date: 12/22/2026 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2026 |
| Description: In this course, we will focus on the artist's responsibilities to their audience. Art affects its audience in all kinds of ways, intended and otherwise: it can offend people, occupy attention and resources, instruct or misinform, and change people's views and attitudes. Art can be misunderstood and misused. Through the study of a variety of cases, in this course students will use some of the tools of ethical reasoning to analyze these problems and develop their own solutions. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:1.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| James Harold | 413-538-2366 | jharold@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 10/26/2026 - 12/22/2026 | Discussion | Friday | 10:30AM - 12:10PM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| For Art Studio, Dance, Music, and Film Media Theater majors only for the first week of pre-registration. Then open to all in the second week. |
| Course Tags | ||
| 1-2CR0001 | 1-2CR: One and two credit undergraduate courses | |
| 2HALF0001 | 2HALF: 2nd-half and non-standard start date courses | This course has a non-standard start date. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 5 | Available: 13 | 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. |