COURSE DESCRIPTION:
“This course examines the arts as expressive practice that manifest through material culture in society, with specific attention to the concepts of participatory culture, transmedia, and the values embedded in arts programming. We will explore the relationships of art to society and individual experience using folkloristic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical and art education literature, and we will do so in a transmedia environment. Drawing on concepts derived from various resources, we will examine the ways in which material culture functions to maintain, transmit, and dynamically engage cultural and social change. Fine, functional, popular, folk, multimedia, and environmental forms of art constitute the range of subject matter, and we will specifically seek the implications for arts managers that these various critical perspectives entail for work in the arts and culture sectors.”