ARTH 206 - Introduction to Art and Architecture in Africa (3cr.)

Credit(s): 3

INTRO ART & ARCHTR IN AFRICA
Component: Lecture
Explores the art history of the African continent from before Antiquity to the twenty first century, surveying a diversity of media including rock art, sculpture, painting and photography. Traverses the vastness of Africa’s ethnic, historical and climatic richness thematized in terms of African comologies, divinatory practices, histories of state formation, concepts of ancestry, colonialism, slavery, sensuality, revolution, and performance.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring