Classes

Art Stud 197: Special Topics (Project Management in Culture and the Arts)

Semester: 

Second Term

Offered: 

2023

Course Description: A processual study of project management practice in the culture and arts sector

Course Topics:

  • Introduction to a project
  • Project ideation, goals and audiences
  • Scope, logistics, and the team
  • Budget and timeline
  • Grant writing
  • Quantitatives
  • Project execution
  • Status tracking and project monitoring
  • Project evaluation - concepts of value and impact
  • Project audit and...
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Art Stud 178: Arts Management in the Philippines

Semester: 

First Term

Offered: 

2023

Course Description: Perspectives, strategies, and practices in arts management in the Philippines

Course Topics:

  • Key concepts in arts management
  • History of arts management in the country
  • Theories and frameworks in/and arts management
  • Models and platforms of arts management
  • Management functions in art organizations
  • The "artworld"
  • Community and publics
  • Government and business
  • Art and law
  • ...
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Art Stud 194: Perspectives in Art History

Semester: 

First Term

Offered: 

2022

Course Description: Key concepts and perspectives in writing art histories

Course Topics:

  • History of developments
  • Biography and connoisseurship
  • Concept of style and formalism
  • Iconography and iconology
  • Social art history
  • Feminist art history
  • Postcolonial art history
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Ecocriticism
  • Digital art history

Art Stud 140: Modern Art

Semester: 

Second Term

Offered: 

2019

Course Description: Modern art, its diversity, tentativeness as well as its revolutionary attitude towards stylistic traditions

Course Topics:

  • Modernity and modernism
  • Framing the study of the Western art survey
  • Western art survey
    •  Impressionism  and Post-Impressionism
    • Symbolism, Fauvism, and German Expressionism
    • Cubism, Orphism, and Purism
    • Futurism and Dada
    • Suprematism and...
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Art Stud 50: The Field of Art Studies

Semester: 

First Term

Offered: 

2020 - 2022

Course Description: Histories, theories, and methods of Art Studies

Course Topics:

  • Intellectual history of Art Studies
  • Introduction to Philippine art
  • Introduction to art history
  • Introduction to art theory and aesthetics
  • Introduction to art criticism
  • Introduction to curatorship
  • Introduction to arts management
  • Newer frontiers in Art Studies

Art Stud 2: Art Around Us: Exploring Everyday Life

Semester: 

First Term

Offered: 

2019 - 2022

Course Description: The experience of art in relation to everyday life

Course Topics:

  • Paradigmatic notion of art
  • Art and the everyday
  • Contextuality of the everyday
  • Senses and experience
  • Negative aesthetics
  • From self-portraits to selfies
  • Meme and the Self
  • The culture industry
  • Cultural hegemony in pop culture
  • Spaces and places

ARTS 1: Critical Perspectives in the Arts

Semester: 

First Term

Offered: 

2018 - 2022

Course Description: A critical study of the experiences, languages, and contexts of the arts

Course Topics:

  • Art in the midst of mediascapes
  • Perspectives and cultural specificity
  • Notion of national identity
  • Art: the object, the concept, and the institutions
  • The concept of difference
  • Philippine living traditions
  • The myth of the lone genius
  • Modes and means of artistic production
  • Spaces of circulation...
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