ART 423 - Modern Media, Art and Culture II

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C
Students produce research on one aspect of how modern media and art engaged with politics, identity, and everyday life, through close reading and evidence-based writing. They gain familiarity with research methods and Marxist and feminist methodologies. Repeatable when topic varies.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements; and ART 323.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Repeatability: May be repeated once for credit for a maximum of 6 units.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities
Course Typically Offered: Fall ONLY

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Demonstrate understanding of key research methodologies for modern media art history, including Marxist and feminist approaches;
Use strategies of close observation and appropriate vocabulary to describe and analyze modern media objects and images;
Collaborate with peers to present information about politics, identity, and everyday life in modern art;
Apply comprehension of modern art, new media technologies, and art publics, in addition to understanding of research methods, to a short independent research project;
Develop a short piece of writing from proposal through revised drafts to finished text.

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.