This course introduces students to the various aspects of managing collections of historic objects or works of art; collections care practices, handling, packaging & transporting objects, methods of preventive conservation, including pest management and disaster planning. An introduction to factors, such as light, incorrect temperature and relative humidity and pollutants that cause deterioration of museum objects will be provided. Assessment of the environment and generating methods for minimizing the decay of artifacts by controlling environmental factors will be explored, along with aspects of the museum building, building services and management that affect collections care.
This course aims to articulate the various methods used in collecting data-the quantitative and qualitative as well as different sampling methods, such as random sampling- are the key elements to defining the validity and characteristics of effective research and analysis. As these methods are
taught and explored students will seek to critically analyze and utilize primary and secondary sources in their own research to bring depth, authoritative support and validity to their own dance research.
This course is a continuation of World Literature 1 with a broadened scope of narratives representing diverse regions. The human condition becomes a focal interest in the course with close textual analysis on the different aspects affecting and shaping the life of the main characters. Consideration is therefore given to the underpinnings of political, cultural or psycho-social, gender, class, ethnicity or race issues which shape and inform the narrative and which provides the
framework for analysis and interpretation.
This course aims to familiarize students in the field of Gender Studies and across a range of disciplines. Students will encounter a number of different ways in which sex, gender and sexuality have been, and can be understood within the different cultures, especially the Caribbean culture. Masculinities and femininities and the ways in which these interact with other markers of difference such as ‘race’, ‘class’, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘nationality’ will be central themes in this course. Culture, in this context, refers to the inherited ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge about gender that constitutes and contributes to the shared bases of social action and activities of Caribbean peoples.
Visual Arts practice through research presents the premise that this discipline is a theoretically robust area of enquiry SARTSMAN | 22 | 2017-18 and a transformative approach to creating and critiquing knowledge. This course describes a range of strategies for planning and conducting research in the Visual Arts.