VIS 121H. Medieval Multiculturalism (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/VIS.html#vis121h
Description
This seminar explores movement and exchange between Mediterranean cities with diverse political, social, ethnic, and religious roots and the new modes of art, architecture, and intellectual discourse that this diversity fostered. In addition to medieval sources, readings include art historical and theoretical texts from a variety of periods and fields that frame the implications of multiculturalism for historical and contemporary categories of perception and for the analysis of visual culture. Recommended preparation: VIS 20 or VIS 112 recommended. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
Prerequisite courses
VIS 121H has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have VIS 121H as a prerequisite.