Art

Subject abbreviation: ART College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Brandon Lattu, M.F.A., Chair Department Office, 239 Arts

• (951) 827-4634; art.ucr.edu

Professors

John M. Divola, M.F.A. Distinguished Professor Jonathan W. Green, M.A.(Art/Art History) Jim Isermann, M.F.A. Charles Long, M.F.A. Amir Zaki, M.F.A. Professor Emeritus

Uta Barth, M.F.A. Jill Giegerich, M.F.A. James S. Strombotne, M.F.A. Associate Professor

Brandon Lattu, M.F.A. Assistant Professor

Yunhee Min, M.A.

The Department of Art offers a B.A. degree in an interdisciplinary program that emphasizes a critical approach to artistic production. Courses are offered in the following curricular areas: photography, digital art, video, two- and three-dimensional media (painting, drawing, sculpture, installation), and critical theory. The program is designed primarily for students preparing for graduate study and those who plan to continue professionally as artists. The Department of Art does not offer any course work in commercial art or in graphic design. The department does however welcome the participation of nonmajors and nondegree students.

Admission Incoming freshmen applicants may simply declare a major in Art upon the submission of their Undergraduate Admission application. However, current UCR non-majors and new incoming transfer students must submit a portfolio electronically, consisting of ten (10) images of your original work and/ or three (3) clips of moving images or sound work. Guidelines for the portfolio and a link to the site for submission can be found on the Art Department website at art.ucr.edu/. Students whose portfolios are approved will be admitted to the major. Guidelines for submission are also available from Undergraduate Admissions and from the Department of Art.

See Undergraduate Studies section.

See College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Colleges and Programs section.

The major requirements for the B.A. in Art are as follows:

• 1. Lower-division requirements (28/30 units)

• a) ART 006/MCS 006

• b) Four additional lower-division Art

courses: ART 001, ART 002, ART 003, ART 004/MCS 004, ART 005, ART 009, ANTH 263 Seminar in Ecological Anthropology (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Selected topics in method and theory of ecological anthropology, including ethnobiology, food production and consumption, development issues, views of the environment, and questions about the relationship of humans to their environments.

ANTH 264 Codices of Ancient Mexico (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. The major manuscripts of the pre-Hispanic and contact periods of Mesoamerica will be reviewed. Special focus will be on the ancient codices of the Maya, Aztec, Mixtec, and the unprovenienced Borgia Group.

ANTH 265 Seminar on Anthropology of Visual Culture (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Presents a historical and ethnographic overview of the role of visual culture in the production and transmission of scientific and cultural knowledge. Focuses on the politics of representation and the ways in which images have maintained or challenged racial, gender, and global hierarchies and inequalities.

ANTH 266 Seminar on History and Memory (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Explores how societies remember, forget, and give meaning to the past through diverse forms of expression in national and transnational contexts. Examines contestations over historical representations and narrations, as well as the ways in which history and memory are shaped and contested by competing claims to power, legitimacy, and authenticity.

ANTH 267 Ethnographies of Postsocialism (4) Seminar, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Explores diverse sociocultural, economic and political experiences of socialist-capitalist transformations. Includes late and postsocialist nation states in Eastern Europe and postcolonial Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Examines the revival of socialist political and cultural projects as a response to capitalist globalization and escalating social and economic inequalities.

ANTH 277 Seminar in Political Ecology (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. An advanced course focusing on the relationship between political economy and human ecology for the analysis of the interaction between people, natural resources, and the environment.

ANTH 278 Seminar in Representation and the Ethno graphic Text (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Critically reviews and analyzes ethnographic texts, both traditional and experimental. Examining ethnographies as a form of writing, the seminar explores the larger intellectual, theoretical, and political context in which production of ethnographies occurs.

ANTH 279 Seminar in Political Anthropology (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Reviewing different forms of stratification and power in society, this seminar critically reviews and analyzes a broad range of materials, debates, and contemporary trends within political anthropology.

ANTH 280 Seminar in Anthropology of Tourism (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. An anthropological study of travel and tourism. Topics include cultural implications for travelers, local people, environment, and economy; historical and social construction of tourist sites; material objects; the culture and performance of tourism; the photographic eye; the tourist encounter; cultural mediation; politics of cultural representation; and commoditization of culture. Credit is awarded for only one of ANTH 119 or ANTH 280.

ANTH 281 Anthropology of Humanitarianism (4) Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Examines debates in anthropological study of humanitarianism and human rights. Uses case studies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore legal, cultural, and political practices of rights and reconciliation in post-conflict settings. Topics include religious aid, philanthropy, ideas of humanity and personhood, state violence and citizenship. and peacekeeping missions.

ANTH 290 Directed Studies (1-6) Independent study by graduate students under supervision of a particular faculty member. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

ANTH 291 Individual Studies in Coordinated Areas (1-6) Prerequisite(s): graduate standing. A program of study designed to advise and assist candidates who are preparing for doctoral examination. The following rules apply: 1) a student may take up to 12 units for the Basic Requirements; 2) a student may take up to 8 units for the Comprehensive Requirements. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC).

ANTH 292 Concurrent Analytical Studies in Anthro pology (1-4) Each ANTH 292 course will be taken concurrently with some 100-series course, but on an individual basis. It will be devoted to completion of a graduate paper based on research or criticism related to the 100-series course. Faculty guidance and evaluation will be provided throughout the quarter. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. May be repeated with different topic.

ANTH 297 Directed Research (1-6) Individual research by graduate students directed by a particular faculty member. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC).

ANTH 299 Research for Thesis or Dissertation (1-12) Field training and directed research in preparation for and completion of doctoral dissertation. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.

The EAP is an excellent opportunity to travel and learn more about another country and its culture while taking courses to earn units toward graduation. Students should plan study abroad well in advance to ensure that the courses taken fit with their overall program at UCR. Consult the departmental student affairs officer for assistance. For further details, visit Study Abroad Programs at studyabroad.ucr.edu or call (951) 827-2508.

See Education Abroad Program in the Educational Opportunities section of this catalog. A list of participating countries is found under Education Abroad Program in the Programs and Courses section. Search for programs by specific areas at uc.eap.ucop.edu.