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2022-2023 Academic Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ARH 295-02 - Special Topic: Haitian Arts and Visual Culture

4 credits (Spring)
This course provides a survey of Haitian art and visual culture from the precolonial era to today, exploring topics such as the Haitian Revolution, Haiti’s Indigéniste and modern art movements, urban art and politics since the Duvalier regimes, art of the Haitian diasporas, and the relationship of the visual arts and Vodou. During the course students will engage with Haitian art collections at the Waterloo Center for the Arts and the Figge Art Museum.

Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Rivera, Moise