“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 List | Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
| 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 | |
MCS 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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