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2025-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Academic Catalog
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ART 1108 - Art History II


Credits: 3

Catalog Description
This course explores the history of visual culture through a global perspective, from the early modern period to the present. Traditions of individual regional cultures will be examined, as well as interactions between various cultures. The course focuses on the forms, functions, and symbolism of images, objects, and spaces, as well as the materials, techniques, and skills used by artists, architects, artisans, and laborers to make aesthetic objects. The use, value, and meaning of artworks will be analyzed in relation to historical circumstances, societal values, and shifting personal and collective identities.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s) fulfilled: Goal 06C: The Humanities and Fine Arts, Goal 08: Global Perspective



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