AP/CLTR 4520 3.0 Social Movements and The Expressive Arts

Examines the specific role that art and artists have played in selected social movements.

AP/CLTR 4851 6.0 Modernism Across The Arts

The underlying project of the course is the analysis of how we make meaning through art forms. More specifically, we will investigate the literary, music, and visual cultures of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries to examine what we could call, with hindsight, a burgeoning interdisciplinary and interartistic inclination. The course contextualizes how and why this […]

AP/CLTR 4850 3.0 Propaganda and Culture

Investigates the employment of the created environment and other expressions of culture for propagandistic purposes, meant to advance privileged ideologies in politics, religion, and social interchange. Discusses examples chosen from different eras and communities, including modern and contemporary applications.

AP/CLTR 4820 3.0 Fetish Appeal: Desire and Consumption

Probes the role of pleasure, desire and power in contemporary consumer culture, especially around objects of consumption, such as so-called designer goods or iconic products such as the Kitchenaid mixer or the Ipod.

AP/CLTR 4810 3.0 Architecture & Social Change

Probes the complex relationship between architecture and social/cultural change in the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on specific architectural "visions" and their intended/unintended consequences. Modern architecture and design has often been based on identifiable visions and dreams of a future utopia made possible through good design and careful planning. Indeed, many architects and […]

AP/CLTR 4000 3.0 Independent Study

Open to advanced students only, this course offers the highly motivated student an opportunity to pursue intensive study pertaining to a theme emanating from culture and its expression on his or her own under the guidance of an instructor.

AP/CLTR 4000 6.0 Independent Study

Open to advanced students only, this course offers the highly motivated student an opportunity to pursue intensive study pertaining to a theme emanating from culture and its expression on his or her own under the guidance of an instructor.

AP/CLTR 3542 6.0 Consumer and Popular Culture

Examines individual and collective expression within the context of popular and consumer culture, including such areas as music, activism, the Web, fashion, subcultures, shopping, car culture, fan clubs, zines, TV and film.

AP/CLTR 3225 6.0 Performance and Resistance

Explores strategies artists and activists use to create performance poetry, art and political theatre by combining discussion, practice and theory to understand how a variety of performance strategies provoke and enliven audiences, and call for political action. Not open to students who have taken AP/CLTR 3225 3.00 (AK/CLTR 3225 3.00 prior to Fall 2009).

AP/CLTR 3590 6.0 Contemporary Popular Culture

Surveys historical and contemporary approaches to the texts and contexts of fiction, film, television, music, folklore and fashion. Themes include the industrialization of culture; changing definitions of the popular; genre and gender; the politics of style; nature and other utopias.