Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA20 - FYS- Beauty, Fairness, Other

Are beauty and fairness enemies? If all people are created equal, why do some people make millions while others scrape by? Is it possible to treat people as equally beautiful? What functions does all our human ranking of other people serve? If so many people really value fairness, why are parts of our human-constructed world so unfair? This class is a live experiment in beauty, justice, and living. It's part art-class, part philosophical musing, and part (a big part) of engaging in social and art experimentation. I have no idea what will happen when you make objects that mean nothing, when you form a government to rule over the class, or when you reconstruct the classroom to better reflect an environment for fairness. This class will prepare you for many things, but its main goal is to help us all find out what it looks like to flip our own ideas over and to look at them through experiments of thought, art, and action.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.