Academic Calendar - 2018 ARCHIVE
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2018ARCHIVE
Visual Arts History 3384F/G
CONTROVERSIES AND CONTESTATIONS: MUSEUMS, MEMORY, AND DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE
What challenges do museums face in researching and displaying “difficult” material such as artefacts related to histories of violence, social and economic disparity, colonization, or environmental degradation? Students will learn how museums have both benefitted from and responded to historical and ongoing exploitation and inequality.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 Visual Arts History 2200 level credits or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours: lecture, blended or online format. Priority will be given to students in the Major in Museum and Curatorial Studies and in the Honors Specialization in Art History and Museum Studies.
Course Weight: 0.50
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CATEGORY B
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Subject Code: VAHISTRY
Visual Arts History 3384F/G
CONTROVERSIES AND CONTESTATIONS: MUSEUMS, MEMORY, AND DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE
What challenges do museums face in researching and displaying “difficult” material such as artefacts related to histories of violence, social and economic disparity, colonization, or environmental degradation? Students will learn how museums have both benefitted from and responded to historical and ongoing exploitation and inequality.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 Visual Arts History 2200 level credits or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours: lecture, blended or online format. Priority will be given to students in the Major in Museum and Curatorial Studies and in the Honors Specialization in Art History and Museum Studies.