Courses

Focuses on interdisciplinary study of visual art from diverse cultural traditions. Addresses role and training of the artist; aesthetic issues related to the object; the audience or viewer for which the work is intended; and the context of the work, especially religious and social history. Cultural traditions include Russian Orthodox icons, Himalayan Buddhist thangkas, and Navaho sandpaintings. (In different semesters, the content may shift to include other traditions such as Islamic or Celtic manuscripts, or Haida totem poles.) Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values. Restricted to Libby RAP students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Libby Residential Academic Program students only.

Explores a wide variety of cinematic forms and styles and discusses the treatment of femininity, masculinity, sexuality, and how gender is represented as an artifact of mass culture. Although the course title privileges issues of gender, the course also includes the study of issues of race and ethnicity in film and the inherent connections between the cinematic representations of race and gender. Approved for GT-AH1. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Prerequisites: Restricted to Libby Residential Academic Program students only.

Surveys the history, evolution, and nature of communication and communication technologies. Students learn about the ongoing media revolution and its broader context, considering the interdependence of communication, culture, and society. They critically examine utopian, deterministic, and pessimistic arguments about the influence of new technologies and arts. Course combines lecture, discussion, and group work in a seminar format. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context. Restricted to Libby RAP students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Libby Residential Academic Program students only.

Concerns the subjectivity and relativity of truth. Focuses on how and why we pursue (or fail to pursue) the truths about ourselves and about the people and events around us, and how and why such truths are often elusive, fragmentary, and impermanent. Formerly FILM 2013. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values. Prerequisites: Restricted to Libby Residential Academic Program students only.

Introduces timely studio subjects in the visual and performing arts that cannot be offered on a regular basis. Information concerning the studio topics offered in any given semester is available prior to registration from the Libby RAP. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Restricted to Libby RAP students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Libby Residential Academic Program students only.

Introduces timely subjects in the visual and performing arts that cannot be offered on a regular basis. Information concerning the seminar topics offered in any given semester is available prior to registration from the Libby RAP. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Restricted to Libby RAP students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Libby Residential Academic Program students only.

Examines American horror films in an historical context through which students learn to recognize how horror films represent our culture's "collective fears" and provides an analysis of the horror film genre. Considers the cultural contexts in which horror films are made through study of the creation and reception of these films during specific times in American history. Prereq., FILM 1502. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: United States context. Prerequisites: Restricted to Libby Residential Academic Program students only.