This 3-credit course is designed as a primer in entrepreneurship for arts students and those in cognate fields. Students will examine the breadth of professional opportunities available in the Creative Economy and explore strategies for pursuing them. Based on these examinations, students will construct a personal mission statement, build an individualized portfolio of materials appropriate for professional development purposes, and begin a journal to formulate, collect, and grow creative venture ideas.

Introduction to museum methods and practices. Issues such as the role of museums in society, the development of col-lections, conservation, curatorial and registrarial responsibilities, museum management, public relations, funding, ethics, and the production of exhibitions and catalogs. Includes field trips to area museums.

This course will focus upon the visual culture of slavery in Canada and the American North, drawing context from other temperate and tropical climate sites. Scholarship on slavery in Canada and the American North falls far short of the research that has been produced on the American South, the Caribbean, and northern South America. The same is also true for other northern or temperate climate regions ?Scotland, Denmark, Norway, and Argentina ? that became sites where enslaved minorities were forced to adapt to cold climates and where year-round agricultural economies could not be sustained.

A historical overview of the most iconic of all Islamic art forms. Carpets, produced in many Islamic societies on all social and economic levels ? encampment, village, town and court atelier ? were widely created and used within Islamic societies and beyond. They became an integral element of European culture for over seven hundred years, documented in hundreds of European paintings. Largely the product of women artists, Islamic carpets present fascinating questions of origins, influence, stylistic development, symbolism, and cultural adaptation.

The topic of looted art appears in the news on a weekly basis, with art historians, museums, archaeologists, economists and legal scholars all weighing in on the problem.

Now that our world is increasingly virtual, what is the significance of material objects? How has the history of craft in Japan come to shape our current understanding of what Yanagi S'etsu rhapsodized as the "beauty of everyday things"? This course examines the history of artisans and designers in Japan in order to analyze the meaning of materiality, craftsmanship and skill, technique and applied knowledge, and our human relationship with things.

This lecture course examines the history of the modernist movement from 1914 to the present in relationship to the primary ideologies of the 20th and 21st centuries, socialism, capitalism, and globalism. It considers the work of the founding figures - Wright, Mies, Gropius and Le Corbusier - and significant themes such as the individual vs. the collective; European vs. American approaches; modernism beyond the West; and the impact of popular culture and new technologies.