ART 336 - Art and Cartography

This course explores the intersections of art and cartography across a variety of time periods and geographic regions. Rather than being organized chronologically or geographically, the course will proceed in thematic units that transcend the disciplinary boundaries that often divide the study of art and maps, such as landscape, travel, urban planning, diagrams, and grids. While the course will not provide the technical skills of mapmaking with modern technologies such as GIS, it is nonetheless especially interested in how attention paid to the processes involved in mapmaking reveals different ways of visualizing data that are commensurate with the more common forms of artmaking in art history. The goal of the course is to use cartography as an entry point for further exploration into the relationships between art and science more broadly.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): ART 201
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).