This course introduces students to key issues in the relationship between art and society in sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Through close study of visual and material culture, it will […]
Contemporary representations of people in the later stages of life, from anti-ageing face cream advertisements to road signs depicting bent human bodies, imply that ageing is unwelcome, unpleasant, and a […]
This course will introduce students to design practices that stand self-consciously outside the mainstream of consumer driven design and which instead seek to employ socially and environmentally responsible practices that […]
The course considers the representation of different bodies in French art from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of the topics explored in this course include queer bodies, skin […]
BiographyI am a first-year PhD by Distance student currently living in Osaka, Japan. My research focuses on women’s religious practices in early modern Japan, primarily Edo period (1603-1868) pilgrimage to Mount […]
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Topics in Popular Music introduces various themes and theoretical frameworks with which to approach the study of popular music. With American popular music of the late 19th and 20th centuries […]
In this course students will learn to apply theories and approaches relevant to popular music studies via in-depth study of particular artists, eras, genres and/or styles, etc. in popular music […]
To facilitate contextualisation, the course will adopt a case-study approach using various artists, trends, or approaches as a lens through which to examine and apply various theoretical approaches key to […]
This course investigates textile as a medium in the premodern period. The first half of the course is devoted to materials and techniques. All phases of textile production from the […]
While not a history class per se, this course will take a roughly chronological approach to examining the evolution of jazz as musical and cultural practice from c. 1920 - […]
Explore the relationship of art, power and belief through this introduction to art and from late antiquity to the Renaissance. History of Art 1A provides an introduction to Art History at […]
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