13 courses with the subject CRIT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CRIT 300Selected Topics in Critical Studies3
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course CRIT courses (Critical Approaches to Arts and Culture) introduce students to topical issues in society, the arts, and culture. Individual courses explore a single topic by drawing on sources from the arts and from relevant research on society and culture. CRIT courses emphasize the importance of critical approach to the understanding of cultural expression and debate. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course may be repeated for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 200 level undergraduate course What does representation mean? How can art make us feel-or not feel-represented? How have artists from across disciplines created works that challenge beliefs, attitudes, or expectations through representing specific identities and experiences? We will examine these questions and others by unpacking how diverse thinkers and artists invested in the power of representation engage creativity. We will explore topics like representation’s relationships to identity categories like race and gender, intersectionality, meaning making, politics, social justice, and more. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course Money is a tool for buying things, a symbol for complex cultural and personal meanings, and so much more. We will examine major issues related to money from a wide variety of disciplines and critical lenses to explore some important questions like: What is money? How does money expand and limit our lives? What determines the value of things? What is the future of money? Many of our approaches to these questions will consider money’s relationships to social justice, technology, consumerism, work and employment, and the arts. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course What is gender? What are important contemporary ideas and issues central to understanding gender? At the heart of our interdisciplinary exploration of gender will be feminist and queer lenses from a variety of disciplines. These lenses will help us examine topics like representations of diverse genders in popular culture and creative practices, gendered systems of being and seeing, political and social movements that work to intervene in histories of oppression, and much more. How gender intersects with a range of identity categories like race, class, nationality, ability, and age will be central. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course What is technology? Does technology necessarily imply progress? How does technology define reality? How does technology shape culture – and vice versa? This course explores these questions and more to unpack the complex relationship between technologies and the cultures creating and using them. We will examine topics like artificial intelligence, technologies’ social impacts, and the digital systems we use to create and share information. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course What is culture? What are ways we can begin to understand the complexities of diverse cultures? We explore these questions and others through unpacking issues of how culture is produced and circulated in ways that shape our ways of thinking, seeing, creating, and navigating our everyday lives. We will explore ideas about culture through a wide variety of disciplines and critical lenses to examine cultural trends, popular culture, creative practices, and more. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course How can art reveal, engage, and respond to power? We explore this question by engaging diverse thinkers and artists to contextualize cultural revolutions in relation to empire. We will examine topics like colonialism, capitalism, and other systems of domination through creative practices. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course Food is a biological necessity, economic powerhouse, symbol for complex and diverse cultural meanings, and so much more. We will explore food from a wide variety of disciplines and critical lenses to explore important questions like some of the following: Is food political? Where does food come from? How do cultural understandings of food shape what we eat-or don’t eat? Many of our approaches to these questions will consider important issues like food’s relationships to social justice, environmentalism, and the arts. Prerequisites WRIT*102, WRIT*102E, or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course Hip-hop is an interdisciplinary creative form and unique way of theorizing and practicing culture. This course engages hip-hop from a variety of cutting-edge critical lenses to examine issues like identity, power, and the relationships between creativity, social forces, and histories. Prerequisites WRIT*102, WRIT*102E, or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course The concept of an afterlife, that there is an immortal future, has been central to most cultures. By understanding different conceptions of what happens to us after we die, we really explore how societies engage in continuous conscious reflection upon ethics, identity, tragedy, the nature of good and evil, repentance and forgiveness. In short, beliefs about the afterlife are perfect vehicles for us to understand how a given culture understands and values life itself. Prerequisites WRIT*102, WRIT*102E, or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course How can art impact society through engaging issues around justice? How can art become a liberatory practice that employs creativity as a path towards justice? How have artists from across disciplines created works by engaging in processes informed by desires for concrete and imaginative change? We will examine these questions and others by unpacking how diverse thinkers and artists invested in disrupting oppressive forces engage creativity. We will examine topics like empowerment, hope, critical thinking, empathy, meaning making, intersectionality, and more. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course Gamification applies game design methods traditionally used for entertainment purposes to non-game contexts. Gamification uses play and gaming elements to influence our behaviors and shape how we navigate various areas of contemporary life, including work, education, shopping, and online spaces. This interdisciplinary class explores topics central to understanding gamification - including the psychology and mechanics of “gamifying” everyday life - in ways that are relevant to all art fields. In addition to writing assignments, student will design basic games to demonstrate gamification concepts. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
CRIT 598Selected Topics in Critical Approaches to Arts and Culture1-3
undefined hours 500 level graduate course CRIT (Critical Approaches to Arts and Culture) courses introduce students to topical issues in society, the arts, and culture. Individual courses explore a single topic by drawing on sources from the arts and from relevant research on society and culture. CRIT courses emphasize the importance of critical approach to the understanding of cultural expression and debate. Prerequisites CRIT course or current graduate student status This course may be repeated for credit. This course can fulfill a critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
