ARTH 4540 - Border Visual Culture

This class will investigate different manifestations of the U.S./Mexican border in the visual arts. Examining different perspectives through a variety of media, this class will complicate and expand the more one-dimensional treatment of the border in mass media as a linear and fixed entity. Throughout the class we will explore how representations of the border correspond to shifting social, political and economic circumstances as well as discourses surrounding multiculturalism and globalization.