ARH 3240: Native North American Art and Architecture

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: ARH 2750 and ENGL 1102
This course surveys key monuments and cultural principles in the arts of select native North American cultures from the pre-contact period until the present day. Architecture, earthworks, terracotta and stone sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and body arts are studied within a regional and chronological framework. The interrelations of art with ritual, religious belief, myth, nature, gender, politics, and history will be continuing themes.