This course introduces key concepts in global histories of visual and material cultures, with the goal of helping students produce creative work with contextual awareness and synthesis. Students will engage with a diverse array of texts, images, and objects to understand how creative works both respond to and inform social, political, and historical contexts. We will synthesize concepts from a variety of sources to build a critical vocabulary for analyzing creative works in their historical contexts, forming a foundation for students to apply historical and theoretical concepts to their research and projects. Students will improve upon existing critical reading and writing skills, articulating the conceptual underpinnings and implications of existing designs, environments, media, images, and products.
Requisites
Take HHIS-121L, Writing Workshop concurrently