This pathway encourages students to engage with the interplay among creativity, creative processes, and humanistic concerns such as the representation of cultural values, exploration of identity, and inquiry into questions of meaning within the fields of visual and literary arts, theatre, and music. It fosters questions about the relationships between artists, aesthetic objects, and audiences. Courses in this pathway explore the following questions:
- How do aesthetic objects or performances alter perceptions and communicate ideas, and how do they participate in larger social and political discourses?
- What are the roles of sensations, emotions, and poetics in invoking form, conveying meaning, and fostering critical thinking?
- How does the creative process itself contribute to the production of knowledge?
AFAM 205 Survey of Race and Culture in Ethnic Literature
AFAM 375 The Harlem Renaissance
AFAM 401 Narratives of Race
ARTH 275 Studies in Western Art I: Ancient through Medieval Art
ARTH 276 Studies in Western Art II: Renaissance to Modern Art
ARTH 278 Survey of Asian Art
ARTH 302 The Art of Mexico and Mesoamerica
ARTH 325 The Cutting Edge: Art and Architecture Since 1900
ARTH 334 Early Italian Renaissance Art: From Giotto to Michelangelo
ARTH 365 Nineteenth Century Art and Architecture in Europe and the Americas
ARTH 367 Chinese Art
ARTH 368 Japanese Art
ARTH 371 East Asian Calligraphy
ARTS 105 Visual Concepts through Graphic Design
ARTS 201 Drawing into Painting: A Contemporary Approach to the Figure Students may count either ARTS 201 or ARTS 301, but not both, toward this pathway
ARTS 202 The Printed Image
ARTS 251 Painting
ARTS 281 Beginning Printmaking: Relief and Intaglio
ARTS 282 Beginning Printmaking: Lithography and Screen Print
ASIA 205 Introduction to Asian Literature
ASIA 305 Heroes and Rebels: Martial Arts Culture in China and Beyond
ASIA 320 Self and Society in Modern Japanese Literature
ASIA 330 Writing the Margins in Contemporary Japanese Literature
BUS 380 Entrepreneurial Mindset for the Arts
CONN 202 The Psychedelic Renaissance
CONN 205 Introduction to Asian Literature
CONN 222 Muslim Fictions
CONN 234 Character Study
CONN 235 The Photographic Image
CONN 243 Love and Violence in the Middle Ages
CONN 270 Walking as a Way of Knowing
CONN 278 The Book as Human Artifact
CONN 286 Embodied Cognition
CONN 303 Art-Science: Inquiry into the Intersection of Art, Science, and Technology
CONN 352 Paradise Lost
CONN 370 Rome: Sketchbooks and Space Studies
ENGL 212 The Craft of Literature
ENGL 227 Introduction to Writing Fiction
ENGL 228 Introduction to Writing Poetry
ENGL 229 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 238 Afrofuturism
ENGL 240 Digital Writing: Text, Image, and Sound
ENGL 245 Shakespeare: From Script to Stage
ENGL 277 The Book as Human Artifact
ENGL 333 The Diary as Form and Practice
ENGL 345 Paradise Lost
ENGL 375 Special Topics in Rhetoric, Literacy and Composition when topic is Authorship and A.I.
ENGL 378 Visual Rhetoric
ENGL 381 Major Authors
FREN 392 African Film
GERM 356 Becoming Modern: Art and Media in Weimar Germany
GLAM 231 Ancient Tragedy
GLAM 232 Ancient Comedy
HUM 290 Introduction to Cinema Studies
LAS 387 Art and Revolution in Latin America
MUS 123 Discovering Music
MUS 220 Popular Music since the Birth of Rock
MUS 221 Jazz History
MUS 223 Women in Music
MUS 225 Romanticism in Music
MUS 226 Twentieth-Century Music Through Film
MUS 233 Introduction to Historical Musicology
MUS 234 Introduction to Ethnomusicology
MUS 235 Introduction to Musicologies
MUS 236 The Classical Canon
MUS 321 Music of South Asia
MUS 330 Opera: Based on a True Story
MUS 332 Music and the Environment
MUS 493 Special Topics in Historical Musicology when topic is African American Music in the Concert Hall OR Black Scholars
PHIL 353 Philosophy of Film and Performing Arts
PHIL 360 Aesthetics
SPAN 326/416 One Hundred Years of Multitudes: A History of Latin American Film
THTR 200 The Theatrical Experience
THTR 215 Fundamentals of Acting
THTR 313 Directing
THTR 325 Dramatic Writing for the Screen and Stage