Spring 2017  |  ARTH 8950 Section 001: Seminar: Issues in the History of Art -- Liquescent Materiality: Cultural History of Water (67505)

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Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
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Student Option
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Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
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Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Walter W Heller Hall 445
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Course Catalog Description:
Theoretical or topical issues. Topics vary. prereq: 3 cr art history, instr consent
Class Description:
The massive water crisis that now effects more than 80% of the world's population has transformed the way we think of human interaction with the environment. The present water crisis, and the ecological predicament more generally, have precipitated an environmental turn in the social sciences and the humanities. In line with this new turn, the seminar explores the interconnected ecologies of water systems and social and cultural practices. Rather than focusing on specific sites or temporal periods, each week will be dedicated to particular forms of hydrological thinking through themes such as flow, depth, surface, and networks. Our case studies will range from Braudel's La Méditerranée, early modern hydrology, display of sea life in colonial aquaria, maritime technology and oceanic trade to ecological thought in recent art, literature, and cinema. Our aim will be to familiarize ourselves with new methodologies in environmental humanities. Students will develop projects that draw on their primary and secondary areas of interest.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67505/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 October 2016

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