This required first semester seminar-style course is designed to bring together all majors in the Division of the Arts (Art & Visual Culture, Dance, Music, and Theater & Performance) to engage in dialogue and & technical innovations, and the creative economy. The first year seminar focuses on considering themes for which to build creative work and research and is also intended as a forum to support future collaborations for projects.

This is the third semester of the required 8 semesters of a seminar style course designed to bring together all majors in the Division of the Arts (Art & Visual Culture, Dance, Performance & Choreography, Music, and Theater & Performance) to engage in dialogue and critical thinking related to contemporary art practices, art & technical innovations, and the creative economy. The seminar is intended as a forum to support future collaborations for projects leading up to and including the final thesis project in the senior year. Fall and spring semesters for this seminar will focus on global contemporary art practices.

This course explores collections of art and artefacts as dynamic and everchanging archives that should be respected as extraordinary cultural assets to be enjoyed as well as scrutinized. This course focuses on methods of acquisition and collection preservation as they inform current perceptions of museums. Students will work with faculty and museum staff through the processes of receiving artwork into a museum collection.

Black Pacific connections in culture and literature can be found on both sides of the world’s largest ocean. Scholars have traced these linkages between African American culture and Oceania as well as Asia Pacific. This seminar explores Black Pacific art and its relationship to Black Atlantic art while teaching critical reading, thinking and writing skills.

This course examines the history of the art market from the 16th century to the present. Students examine the production, sale and exchange of works of art as well as the patrons, artists and collectors who participate in this economic, social and political form of taste-making and aesthetic valuation.