ART 330 - Critical Thinking in a Visual World

Units: 3
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Consent of Instructor
A critical look at subjective responses and objective reasoning in relation to works of art, architecture, and visual and material culture. Explores the rhetorical power of objects, sites, and images in the structuring of historical and contemporary life. Comparative studies address such topics as: religious and cultural symbolism, logos and branding, the creation of private and civic spaces, and intersections of art and science, historically and in the contemporary world.
GenEd: UDGE-C
CI Mission Category(s): Interdisciplinary Approaches