FAS390Non-Western Art

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Undergraduate · 3 credits

This course is an introduction to aspects of non-European art created by cultures selected from the following geographic areas: Africa, the Americas (indigenous cultures), Oceania, Southwest Asia (the Middle East), South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Although the specific artistic content, geographical coverage and/or thematic structure of the course may vary from semester to semester, after its completion students should be able to identify and analyze selected works of non-Western art with regard to aesthetics, media, means and content, using appropriate vocabulary and demonstrating links to such cultural contexts as history, social structure, philosophy and religion.