Race and Contemporary Arts

This is an interdisciplinary course that draws from a range of different art forms, as well as history and social science, to examine the ways in which race appears in the contemporary arts. Some central questions are: How does race structure the arts in terms of content and form as well as other levels of cultural and political representation? Why is it important to have equal representation of forms within the cultural sphere? Who creates? Who views? Who has access to circulation? How does this affect all of as citizens of a community?

VirtMedvl:Fict&Fant/MiddleAges

What is medieval? Most people learn very little about the foggy period that lies between the end of the Classical era and the start of the Renaissance. What we do learn usually consists of stereotypes. Jousting, chivalry, repression of women, religious fervor, medical ignorance, lice, Crusades, King Arthur, economic injustice, knights, ladies, and plague: such words, concepts, images predominate. How were these stereotypes produced? How are they reinforced or challenged on-line? What is their relationship to the ways the medieval world saw itself?

Writing,Identity&EngStudies

The Integrative Experience at UMass Amherst is a required upper-division course that asks students to reflect on and integrate their learning, from their major to their General Education courses to their extracurricular experiences; to further practice key Gen Ed objectives, such as oral communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary perspective-taking; and to begin to apply what they've learned at UMass to new situations, challenging questions, and real world problems. This course is a writing-intensive version of the IE, designed specifically for BA-English majors.
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