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ARTH 4526 Caribbean Dialogs

Course description

(summer only) This course is only offered in the Summer Session.

"Caribbean Dialogs: Online!" explores Caribbean culture through the prism of its cultural products, art, music, and literature. This summer course combines rigorous scholarship, innovative technology, copious reading and 'real time' online conversations to build an understanding of cultural life in this region.

Using Caribbean art as a case study, the course explores themes such as new world history, colonialism, Diaspora, trauma, violence and tourism. Through an understanding of basic cultural theory, class members come to see how perceptions of Caribbean culture are historically fluid and subject to variation as they are categorized and textualized. Similarly through active participation students are invited to question their own considerations of identity, culture, race and ethnicity. "Caribbean Dialogs: Online!" examines the imaginary, creative spirit of the region's artists to show ways that they are reconfiguring themselves to meet the needs of a changing world at once apprehensive but also charmed by black culture.

This course is designed as a distance course allowing students to interact directly with the professor using a virtual meeting/classroom and pre-recorded podcasts and lectures. No special skills are required. An interest in the arts, other cultures and a zeal for learning are givens. We will be working with the latest innovative software that allows students to web log and create web pages almost intuitively. A computer/laptop with a microphone and camera is helpful but not essential.

ARTH 4526 100-SEM

Class number: 2344
Class dates: June 1-July 12, 2009
Final exam dates: Will be provided by instructor (see Final Exams)
Days/times: Distance Learning
Credit: 4
Grade option: GRD
Instructor: Archer-Straw, P. (pea5)
Max. enrollment: 15
To enroll: Enrollment for this class is closed.
Computer requirements: This is a Distance Learning course. Please review the computer hardware and software requirements before enrolling.
Related classes: Cross-list: VISST 4526 100-SEM

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