This course will examine the creative response of visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and new media artists to disaster, conflict and social crisis. Often allegorical, the work of artists will be seen to respond to crisis in modes not available to the fields of journalism or traditional documentary media. The course requires students to produce visual works and to prepare short discussion papers on the themes of disaster, history and memory. Lect: 3 hrs. Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
