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Sankofa & memoria: Archiving - Finding your history in order to go forward — DAN4381.01

Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In this course, we will be uncovering, re-positioning, and affirming historical legacies and traditions that stand the risk of being lost forever, and explore how to use them to fight discrimination, racism and hate today. We will do so using Sankofa, a quest for knowledge through critical examination, patient investigation, and learning

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

A 鈥渞igorous study of art鈥 became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor鈥攖he famous and foundational Heinrich W枚lfflin鈥攃aused him to consider publishing an account of 鈥渢he most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.鈥

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Westworld Their World (Season 2) — AH4318.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Westworld (Season 2) HBO鈥檚 鈥渟cience fiction western thriller鈥 television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various aesthetics and genres, histories and visions, typologies, theologies, and allegories on screen and off鈥攂oth inside and outside the show鈥檚 narrative. Possibilities