ENGL 3301 is also offered in Fall 2024
ENGL 3301 is also offered in Spring 2024
ENGL 3301 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3301 Section 001: Asian America through Arts and Culture (65052)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
AAS 3301 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 320
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Interdisciplinary questions of Asian American experience, identity, and community. Literature, dance, music, photography, film, theater, other cultural forms. Students work with local Asian American arts groups/organizations. Students express their own cultural contradictions through writing and other forms of artistic expression and attend local arts events.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jolee+ENGL3301+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Through the analysis of theater, dance, music, visual arts, and other artistic practices, Asian American Through Arts and Culture increases awareness of the artistic contributions as well as the history, politics, and culture of Asian Americans. The course focuses on the close analysis and interpretation of individual works by a range of modern and contemporary artists. Students will analyze, critique, and interpret these works in light of the historical and social contexts in which they were produced, their creation and uses of aesthetic form, and their impact on individuals and communities. Discussion, writing assignments, and oral presentations will focus on different ways of encountering and evaluating artistic work; for instance, students will write critical analyses and production reviews as well as dialogue more informally through weekly journal entries and online discussion forums. We will examine what it means to define artists and their work as being "Asian American" and explore how other categories of identity such as gender, sexuality, or class intersect with race. We will study how art works not only as individual creativity but also as communal and social practice; for instance, we look at the history of theaters, such as East-West Players or Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, that have sustained Asian Americans as actors,playwrights, and designers. To explore further how works of art play a role in society, students will not only discuss individual examples with the instructor and their classmates and attend local events, but also have the opportunity to converse with artists working in literature, theater and dance, music, visual arts, and other media. The course has a service-learning option that allows students to work with the wealth of resources in local Asian American arts communities, with groups and organizations such as the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent, Mu Performing Arts, or Pangea World Theater. Students will be required to attend local arts events. Students will look at how scholars, popular media, and individual spectators interpret and understand the works of these artists, their aesthetic form, and their philosophical and cultural contexts, and will develop a broader critical vocabulary and aesthetic criteria for evaluating contemporary arts. This course fulfills the Arts/Humanities Core LE requirement as well as the Diversity and Social Justice in the US Theme LE requirement.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65052/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 October 2016
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