Nov 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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AT 320 - Socially Engaged Art (CBL-R)


Credits: 3

This course covers critical theory, studies in contemporary artistic practices, and current social and ethical topics facing contemporary artists and designers. Students will select a research topic and create an original work of art that engages the public. In addition, students research and write about current and historical issues in relationship to their own project, helping to enrich the student’s ability to communicate visually.

This is a Community-Based Learning - Required (CBL-R)  course.

 

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

  • Identify living artists across disciplines who are shaping the art field.
  • Describe various strategies that contemporary artists are using to solve current social and ethical concerns in the world.
  • Argue the value of their personal art practice in contemporary art though written papers and oral presentations.
  • Apply art theory to analyze, interpret and critique works of art.
  • Develop and implement an original art project that engages the public in artistic or social discourse.




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