IART 7404 - Critical Theory and the Arts

Includes foundational texts that define and inform contemporary critical and theoretical discourse. Organized into three major threads that run through the 20th- century: Marxism, psychoanalysis, and post structuralism. The aim is to provide analytical tools for analysis of primary themes of critical theory, including, but not limited to, the social, the subject, the object, and power. Students will become versant in contemporary discourse for the study of the art.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I