Semester General Education Courses - Ohio University
Semester General Education Courses - Ohio University
Semester General Education Courses - Ohio University
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Subject<br />
Catalog<br />
Number<br />
Title<br />
<strong>Semester</strong> <strong>General</strong> <strong>Education</strong> <strong>Courses</strong><br />
<strong>General</strong><br />
<strong>Education</strong><br />
Code<br />
Credit<br />
Hours<br />
Maximum<br />
Repeat<br />
Hours<br />
Course Description<br />
AAS 2500 Blackness and the Arts 2HL 3 0 Introduction to the idea of a black art by focusing on a number of different<br />
kinds of art practice that enact the idea of race (e.g., film, video, fine art, new<br />
media, television, photography, literature). Develop skills in the critical study of<br />
black art as a historiographical, cultural, and political craft. Topics are chosen<br />
to provide a wide breadth and scope of black visual and expressive culture.<br />
The course is interdisciplinary by design and necessity. Encourages a shift of<br />
hermeneutics from the black life world to black visual and expressive culture<br />
in the terms of blackness. This means repurposing the study of black art in<br />
ways other than fidelity to the social category of race and an ethics of positive<br />
and negative representation that tacitly encourages the idea of film as cultural<br />
policy. Details a commitment to how new paradigms for form and aesthetics,<br />
historiography, and intertextuality constitute blackness as the unfinalizable<br />
encounter between the idea of race and the idea of art rather than blackness<br />
as merely sociology. The approach of this course is primarily that of visual<br />
culture and post-structuralist work devoted to difference. In this way, the<br />
method is twofold. Firstly, this is an introduction to the idea of race as enacted<br />
in the arts and an introduction to critical theory.<br />
AAS 3500 African American Arts and Artists 2HL 3 0 The class is an intensive study of a specific topic/theme of Black visual and<br />
expressive culture. The course will be structured around this specific<br />
topic/theme to illustrate the methods and traditions of black visual and<br />
expressive culture. The content of the course will rotate but always address<br />
the relationship between art practice and the idea of race. Such topics might<br />
include feminist art, the racial grotesque, Chester Himes and the noir tradition,<br />
passing and the black embodiment index, historical consciousness and Civil<br />
Rights America, hip-hop modernism, or an analysis of one literary text (Ralph<br />
Ellison's Invisible Man or Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) and its influence of<br />
black visual and expressive culture. The purpose of this class is to promote a<br />
rigorous sense of blackness as entailing a negotiation with the necessary,<br />
creative tensions between art and distinct modalities of black visual and<br />
expressive culture. In other words, this course redraws the lines of influence,<br />
appreciation, allusion, causality, reference, and exposition by recognizing the<br />
importance of ambiguity over prescription. The approach of the class is most<br />
immediately informed by the work of Darby English (How to See a Work of Art<br />
in Total Darkness), Kobena Mercer (Annotating Art's Histories series), and<br />
Kimberly Benston (Performing Blackness: Enactments of African American<br />
CAS 1110 Tradition and Inquiry in the Classical World 2HL 3 0 Explores approaches to the themes of nature, knowledge, and membership in<br />
the ancient Greco-Roman culture, as revealed in ancient texts, archaeological<br />
evidence, and works of art. Regular writing assignments are designed to aid<br />
students in their exploration of the issues.<br />
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