华体会

Courses in this cluster will explore global cultures through an interdisciplinary lens, think comparatively about cultural and aesthetic traditions, and invite scholars to consider what it means to think and act in a global community.

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Course Descriptions

CC101: Chinese Culture: Traditional and Modern

Instructor: Hong Jiang
Learning Across the Liberal Arts Designation: Analysis & Interpretation of Meaning
CRN# 18285
Block: 1

This course starts with introducing students to Chinese concepts of Nature, family and self and how Chinese philosophical thinking (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism) transformed way of life for the East, but will focus on discussing the social and political changes happened in modern China, and analyzing how these changes perceived and conjured up cultural landscape in China. This is an introductory course that lead students to study Chinese culture in a broader, historical, social, political and global context cross-culturally.

There are afternoon film screenings; one in week 2, one in week 3. Trip to Denver Art Museum-Asian Art in week 2.

CC120: Philosophical Argument and Writing

Instructor: Cody Gomez
CRN# 18323
Block: 2

An introduction to critical thinking and conceptual argument, this course will cover basic principles of logic as they pertain to philosophical writing and thinking. Students will master essential skills for reading and evaluating arguments, engage with a variety of methods and styles of philosophical inquiry, and learn techniques of composition that enhance the clarity and elegance of their written work. Through critical analysis, engagement, and practice, students will hone the precision in thinking and writing required to successfully interrogate and contribute to the creation of knowledge in college.

CC104: Comparative Art Histories: East Asia and Europe, 15th to 20th century I

Instructor: Tamara Bentley
Learning Across the Liberal Arts Designation: Historical Perspectives
CRN# 18257
Block: 1

CC120: Comparative Art Histories: East Asia and Europe, 15th to 20th century II

Instructors: Gale Murray
CRN# 18301
Block: 3

This course is the second in a two block intradisciplinary sequence throughout which certain themes are threaded, creating an opportunity for students to compare how different cultures respond to similar problems. Among the key themes are global exchange of ideas, products and imagery; the relationship of art to the intellectual, political, and religious history of a time and place; issues of art and gender; colonialism; the treatment of “others”; and varying concepts of modernity. While block one focused on the arts of East Asia, this block will focus on the Western European traditions from the Renaissance to modern times and students will be asked to think about differences and similarities between the cultures examined in both blocks. In this Writing Seminar, students will practice writing in the discipline of Art History, and learn to write in the style and form of the field. They also will work throughout the block on a major research paper, which will help them develop and refine skills that will serve them in many other courses. All writing assignments will help students articulate how writing processes engage with and inform scholarly perspectives.