NEW SPRING 2011 COURSES
Now accepting enrollment
ARCH 790-006: PRACTICUM IN BUILDINGS-LANDSCAPES-CULTURES
Instructor: Arijit Sen, UWM Architecture
Contact: senA@uwm.edu
Contact: senA@uwm.edu
Th 5:30PM - 8:10PM, Location TBA
This is the BLC common course shared by UWM and UWMadison.
This course explores past and present approaches to the historical study of architecture and cultural landscapes. Field application and learning from the analysis of local buildings, landscapes and cultures. Requires travel in/around Madison and Milwaukee.
ARCH 532: Modern Concepts of Architecture and Urban Design
Instructor: Linda Krause, UWM Architecture
Contact: lrkrause@uwm.edu
Contact: lrkrause@uwm.edu
This course examines the 20th century built environment--from individual buildings to large-scale urban designs. Taking the Modern Movement as the century's central event, we consider how the theory and practice of modernism created new building techniques and technologies, radically reorganized urban forms and functions, and dramatically redefined the role of architect and planner. We will also consider concurrent alternatives to the modernist vision. The forms, functions, and meanings of architecture and urban design are examined within their artistic, social, political, and economic contexts.
ARTHIST 472 ONLINE: History and Theory of New Media Art
Sociology 927-001: Sociology of Food: Place, Culture, and Eating
Instructor: Jennifer Jordan, UWM Sociology
Wed. 4:30-7:10 in Bolton 778B
Contact: jajordan@uwm.edu
How did a tomato become an "heirloom"? Is genetically modified food really necessary to fight world hunger? How have urban gardens and farms changed over time? This seminar will explore these questions and many more as we investigate the connections between food, place, and culture. Students will examine scholarly approaches to the study of a wide array of food issues, from the "quality turn" and Slow Food to urban farming and food deserts, to global hunger and the connections between food and collective memory. The course will also integrate film, "field trips" to local sites of food production, a mixture of active participation, smaller projects, and a larger final paper.
History 600: "Food and the City"
Instructor: Joseph Rodriguez, UWM History
contact: joerod@uwm.edu
A research class for undergraduate history majors. The class topic considers all aspects of food and the city. This includes the food cultures of ethnic groups, labor especially immigration and the food industry, food and urban revitalization, food-related urban landscapes, and food and the media. We'll read materials by Michael Pollan, Jeffry Pilcher, Eric Schlosser,Warren James Belasco, Julie Guthman, Frances More Lappe, and Laura Lawson.
Instructor: Jennifer Johung, Art History, Milwaukee
ARTHIST 369: Post 1970's Art
MW 11-12:15, MIT 191
This course explores the legacies of Minimalism and Conceptual Art on a range of global contemporary art movements, such as site-specific art, earth and land art, institutional critique, body and performance art, public art, video art, relational art, digital art, and bio-art. We will examine the incorporation of the viewer into the understanding and experience of the artwork, the process of art-making as event, the artist as producer and/or curator, and the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary art. The course will also introduce students to the relationship between critical theory and contemporary art, beginning in the late 1970s.
Instructor: Jennifer Johung, Art History, Milwaukee
This course introduces students to the history and critical theory of new media artworks, focusing on artists who utilize interactive technologies. The course will outline the history of telecommunications and basic networking technologies as well as the forms and concepts of interaction and participation related to them. We will examine the aesthetic and technological possibilities for artists working within networked environments, exploring a range of projects such as Internet art and immersive installations, hyper-linked environments, telepresence and telerobotics, artificial life and intelligence, mapping and locative media projects using mobile devices such as PDAs, cell-phones, and GPS systems, social networking sites, net activism, and bio and nanotechnology.
364 History of American Art, 1607-Present. Alt yrs, II; 3 cr (H-I). Explores American art and material culture between 1607 and the present; works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts are examined within the broader social, historical, and cultural contexts that give them form and meaning. Andrzejewski. P: Art Hist 202.
457 History of American Vernacular Architecture and Landscapes. I; 3 cr (H-D). Survey of American vernacular buildings and landscapes from the colonial period to the present. Emphasis is on acquiring descriptive tools and developing interpretive frameworks to explore the significance that these vernacular environments have had for their makers and users. P: Jr st & at least one Art Hist crse, or cons inst. Andrzejewski.
Instructor: Anna Andrzejewski, Art History, Madison
Instructor: Anna Andrzejewski, Art History, Madison
