FA 200 - The Arts and Everyday Life
This course situates the arts in historical, social and political contexts that contribute to the ways in which art and culture are produced, exchanged and consumed. A variety of cultural artifacts including film, television, advertising, literature, the Internet, music, theatre, photography, architecture, sculpture, and painting are analysed from an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective in order to understand the complex role of the arts in our lives. This course promotes a critical approach, taking up the complex signifiers of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, and class as they relate to the arts, and as part of an ongoing integrative framework.
