The Holocaust and Japanese American Internment. The final project will be tailored to students' specific interests. Creative final projects will be encouraged. This is an interdisciplinary course suited to students in a wide range of disciplines including Art History, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, History, Philosophy, Psychology, American Culture, and Fine Art. May be elected for credit more than once.
Indian paintings reflect the history and multivalent culture of a vast and very ancient land.
This course examines how the different cultural systems within India responded to and interpreted life, faith and each other, not organized historically in terms of the development of form, but by genre. Thus, the discourses of love and war, subjects which obsessed Indian artists, will guide the class through the range and diversity of Indian painting, in the attempt to recognize indigenous and local social perspectives. Viewings of private and public collections will supplement class lectures and discussions. Students will be required to write two short papers, as well as take two short tests. Some elements of courtly art of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries seem very glamorous to the modern eye.