Courses

This course supports the graduate thesis process through individual thesis research, studio-based creative work, and designing the MFA Thesis Exhibition. Focusing on visual investigation and presenting work in public contexts, this course supplements the 6 credits required for the Thesis A and Thesis B courses.

Accessing information, searching scholarly literature, and oral or poster presentation of scholarly work and formal research thesis. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Offered as a part of our “UA in Italy: Culture and Language” study abroad program, this class explores Italian culture from ancient times to the present through the lens of art, literature, music, history, and food. Students will spend a month in Florence, where they will take classes in sites like the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, the Galileo Museum, and the National Library.

Explores the political, social, and cultural history of 1960s America.

Genre of slave narrative, its critical theories, and its nineteenthand twentieth-century literary expressions. Includes Equiano, Jacobs, Wilson, Douglass, DuBois, Wright, Angelou, and Morrison.

Genre of slave narrative, its critical theories, and its nineteenthand twentieth-century literary expressions. Includes Equiano, Jacobs, Wilson, Douglass, DuBois, Wright, Angelou, and Morrison.

This course analyzes the social construction of dementia and salient social psychological theories, concepts, and research in dementia studies. It investigates the social psychology of dementia in relation to mind, identity, stereotypes, prejudice, attributions, socialization, emotions, social interaction and the impact of institutions on the self.

Students explore sociological theories of aging from historical, demographic, also examine contemporary social problems facing older adults. Additional ethnicity, and social class using the life course perspective.

This course is designed to critically examine sociological issues within American Society via the lens of cinema.

This course is designed to critically examine sociological issues within American society via the lens of cinema.