Schedule

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Date Due In Class
Week 1
  • N/A
  • Discuss: Syllabus and course introduction
  • Discuss: Cultural lenses
  • Discuss: Spirituality, Ethics, and Morality as Cultural Lenses
  • Introduce: Debates
Week 2
  • NO CLASS: MLK Day
  • NO CLASS
  • Discuss: Truth as a Cultural Lens, part 1
  • Introduce: In Tandem
Week 3
  • Discuss: Pedagogy as a Cultural Lens
  • Discuss: Languages (Visual and Otherwise) as Cultural Lenses
Week 4
  • Discuss: History as a Cultural Lens
  • Discuss: Money, Patronage, and Class as Cultural Lenses
Week 5
  • Discuss: Critical Theory as Cultural Lenses
  • Discuss: Thinking and Writing Critically About Art
  • N/A
Week 6
  • Discuss: Platforms, Distribution, and Display As Cultural Lenses
  • Discuss: Gender as a Cultural Lens, part 1
Week 7
  • Discuss: Gender as a Cultural Lens, part 2
  • Discuss: Race, Nationality, and Intersectionality as Cultural Lenses, part 1
  • Introduce: Dominoes
  • N/A
Week 8
  • Discuss: Race, Nationality, and Intersectionality as Cultural Lenses, part 2
  • Discuss: Pre-Modernism to Early Modernism
  • N/A
Week 9
  • Discuss: Modernist media, semiotics, aesthetics, part I
  • Discuss: Modernist media, semiotics, aesthetics, part II
Week 10
  • Discuss: Postmodernism
  • Discuss: Postmodernist+ media, semiotics, aesthetics, part I
Week 11
  • Discuss: Postmodernist+ media, semiotics, aesthetics, part II
  • Discuss: Truth in the modern age and beyond, part II
Week 12
  • Discuss: Post-postmodernism
  • Discuss: Social aesthetics (open, closed, and hyper texts)
  • Introduce: Final
  • N/A
Week 13
  • Discuss: Socially Conscious/Engaged Design
  • Discuss: Critical Practices: Critical, Associative, and Speculative Design, and Design Fiction
Week 14
  • NO CLASS: WORK DAY
  • Sign up for office hours to discuss your papers and exam
  • Assemble your notes (lecture + readings) to play game show for review and extra credit points
  • Play: Game show! 
  • Discuss: Recap and Trajectories
Week 15
  • N/A