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ARTH 438 Studies in Indigenous Arts and Visual Culture of North America Units: 3.00
This seminar offers an in-depth study of a topic in North American Indigenous arts and visual culture, including theoretical and methodological readings.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
Learning Hours: 126 (36 Seminar, 90 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 4 or above and registration in an ARTH Specialization, Major, or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum of 24.0 units in ARTH and a cumulative GPA of 1.90 or higher.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Formulate a hypothesis or question that engages with the major themes, events, theories raised in the course concerning visual autoethnography and arctic modernity.
- Interpret, describe, and analyze a graphic drawing from the North Baffin collection.
- Summarize and critically analyze secondary and primary source material pertinent to the history of the Arctic, or the graphic traditions of the Arctic peoples.
- Summarize and explain the author's argument in a scholarly-length essay on visual autoethnography and arctic modernity.
- Write a critical assessment of your peer's essay draft, covering their thesis/topic question, organization, structure, clarity, and word choice