HAD-453 Topics in the Arts of Oceania

3 Credits

A Survey of Oceanic Arts deals with three primary ideas: Pacific Islands, Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia (the place), Art (human expression, its creation, use and interpretation) and History (over time). The course will look at the forms, materials, functions and contexts in which arts have been created and used in Pacific Island societies, as well as how that body of material has been observed, described and collected buy people foreign to the region.