BPAC
4000
Contemporary Cultural Practices I
Lecture Hours
4.0
Seminar Hours
0.0
Lab Hours
0.0
Credits
3.0
Regular Studies
Description
Discontinued as of Summer Semester 2025.
This interdisciplinary course examines pivotal twentieth-century innovations in western art such as Modernism, the Viennese School, Dadaism, and Constructivism. Through analysis of historical and socioeconomic contexts, students explore how artistic disciplines coexist and influence each other. Students identify and examine the parameters and principles behind the paradigm shift that led to new artistic concepts and innovative forms in music, film, video, theatre, dance, writing, and visual arts.
Prerequisite: Completion of lower-level requirements of BPA degree.
This interdisciplinary course examines pivotal twentieth-century innovations in western art such as Modernism, the Viennese School, Dadaism, and Constructivism. Through analysis of historical and socioeconomic contexts, students explore how artistic disciplines coexist and influence each other. Students identify and examine the parameters and principles behind the paradigm shift that led to new artistic concepts and innovative forms in music, film, video, theatre, dance, writing, and visual arts.
Prerequisite: Completion of lower-level requirements of BPA degree.