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Diplomacy & the Arts Concentration

​​“Musicians can perform diplomatic functions. Beyond the official responsibilities, they disseminate models of relationships to others that diplomatic practice can draw on or even adopt.”

- Frédéric Ramel and Cécile Prévost-Thomas, International Relations, Music and Diplomacy, 2018

The Diplomacy and the Arts concentration provides a foundation for those interested in putting art and an understanding of aesthetics into the service of community formation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Likely vocations could include work in museums, galleries or as a studio artist, among others. Students selecting this concentration will place the study and practice of diplomacy into conversation with the disciplines of literary studies, studio art, the history of art and architecture, peace studies, religion, and writing, rhetoric and discourse.

Students in the Diplomacy and the Arts concentration are required to take six courses from the following list.​

“Musicians can perform diplomatic functions. Beyond the official responsibilities, they disseminate models of relationships to others that diplomatic practice can draw on or even adopt.”

- Frédéric Ramel and Cécile Prévost-Thomas, International Relations, Music and Diplomacy, 2018

The Diplomacy and the Arts concentration provides a foundation for those interested in putting art and an understanding of aesthetics into the service of community formation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Likely vocations could include work in museums, galleries or as a studio artist, among others. Students selecting this concentration will place the study and practice of diplomacy into conversation with the disciplines of literary studies, studio art, the history of art and architecture, peace studies, religion, and writing, rhetoric and discourse.

Students in the Diplomacy and the Arts concentration are required to take six courses from the following list.

Course Title Quarter Hours
Choose six from the following, at least two must be taken at the 300-level:24
ABD 235
HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND NEGRITUDE
ABD 244
AFRICAN DIASPORA WOMEN WRITERS
ABD 249
JAZZ AND THE DIASPORIC IMAGINATION
ABD 261
RADICAL AESTHETICS OF HIP HOP
ABD 345
THE LITERATURE OF IDENTITY
ABD 374
THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT
ART 101
DIGITAL FOUNDATIONS
ART 104
CREATING ART
ART 105
TWO-DIMENSIONAL FOUNDATIONS
ART 106
BEGINNING DRAWING
ART 113
THREE DIMENSIONAL FOUNDATIONS
ART 200
ART & ARTISTS IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
ART 220
THINKING PHOTOGRAPHY
ART 224
BEGINNING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
ART 226
VIDEO ART
ART 291
MURAL PAINTING
CMN 103
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
CMNS 205
COMMUNICATION, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY
CMNS 309
INTERNATIONAL/GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
CMNS 333
CULTURES IN CONVERSATION
DPL 210
LEADERSHIP AND DIPLOMACY
DPL 295
SPECIAL TOPICS
GEO 334
URBAN/CITY DESIGN
HAA 101
INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ART
HAA 115
INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN ART
HAA 130
INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN ART
HAA 145
INTRODUCTION TO ARTS OF THE AMERICAS
HAA 200
SPECIAL TOPICS ON THE ART INSTITUTE
HAA 203
POST-COLONIAL AFRICAN ART
HAA 220
BUDDHIST ART
HAA 222
ISLAMIC ART
HAA 247
MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART
HAA 248
MEXICAN ART
HAA 281
MODERN ARCHITECTURE
HAA 291
MUSEUM AND NON-PROFIT ARTS MANAGEMENT
HAA 297
SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE
HAA 365
ART SINCE 1975
HAA 366
TOPICS ON WOMEN AND ART
HAA 391
THE EVOLVING MUSEUM: HISTORIES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
HAA 394
MUSEUM STUDIES INTERNSHIP
LST 249
MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART
LST 336
EXPERIENCING MEXICAN ART
MPOP 274
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN CINEMA AND TELEVISION
PAX 240
VOICES OF WAR AND PEACE: ART, LITERATURE AND FILM
PAX 242
PICTURES OF INJUSTICE: NARRATIVE ARTS IN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS
PAX 244
ARCHEOLOGY OF POWER: TESTIMONIES FROM FILM, LITERATURE, AND NARRATIVES
PAX 372
TRAUMA, ART & RESILIENCE
REL 225
RELIGION AND THE ARTS
WRD 263
READING BETWEEN THE GROOVES: THE RHETORICAL POWER OF POPULAR MUSIC
WRD 265
SOCIAL MOVEMENT, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES
WRD 363
VISUAL RHETORIC
WRD 371
MENTORING YOUTH IN COMMUNITY WRITING GROUPS
WRD 376
FIELDWORK IN ARTS WRITING
WRD 377
WRITING AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
PHL 200
ETHICAL THEORIES
PHL 243
PHILOSOPHY AND FILM
PHL 246
BLACK AESTHETIC THOUGHT
PHL 341
AESTHETICS

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