Arizona International College: Creative Inquiry (AIWA)  Department Info

AIWA 300A -- Practice in the Visual Arts  (3-5 units)
Description:  This course provides opportunities for creative research and extended practice in visual arts tools and media, with an emphasis on the development of original work which will be submitted for individual and group critique. Subjects will include drawing, design, photography, interactive multimedia, and painting.
Prerequisite(s):  2nd year standing; consent of instructor for non-AIC students.
May be repeated:  for credit 4 times (maximum 5 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AIWA 301 -- Art in Public Spaces  (3 units)
Description:  This course will study the social and cultural forces that give rise to and shape the arts as public phenomena. History and contemporary critical issues with regard to public art will be considered, with emphases on how the visual and performing arts are manifest as public, in contrast to private, cultural forms, and how the arts provide identity and continuity within communities and societies worldwide.
Prerequisite(s):  2nd-year standing; consent of instructor for non-AIC students.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AIWA 302 -- Science, Art and the Public Conscience  (3 units)
Description:  This course examines the nature of both science and art, with attention to similarities and differences in their processes and outcomes, especially in relation to development of public and societal values around the world. Students will engage in discussion, critical writing, and projects that are visually or performance oriented, with both individual and group work.
Prerequisite(s):  2nd year standing; consent of instructor for non-AIC students.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AIWA 340 -- Labyrinths and Masquerades: On Classical and Contemporary Literary Traditions  (3 units)
Description:  Course analyzes the connections between classical and contemporary texts, considering the ways different genres and prose rhythms reflect specific historical and cultural contexts.
Prerequisite(s):  instructor consent for non-AIC students.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AIWA 341 -- Oral Traditions  (3 units)
Description:  Course explores the connections between ancient and contemporary native literatures of North and South America.
Prerequisite(s):  instructor consent for non-AIC students.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AIWA 350A -- Interdisciplinary Performing Arts: West Africa  (3 units)
Description:  This course introduces students to practices in West African performing arts, exploring percussion, songs, movements, drama and storytelling in their various cultural contexts.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AIWA 400A -- Advanced Studies in Affective Learning  (3-5 units)
Description:  This course focuses on developing the awareness and vocabulary to describe aspects of emotion, feeling and empathy with regard to knowledge, communication and expressive forms of culture. The inter-relationship of affective and cognitive processes and their comparative importance in differing personal, social and cultural contexts around the world will be studied. Topics and perspectives will include the arts, literature, history, science, and anthropology.
Prerequisite(s):  3rd-year AIC standing or consent of instructor.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AIWA 401A -- Advanced Studies in Comparative Arts and Culture  (3-5 units)
Description:  This course examines the similarities and differences in art, music, theatre and other cultural forms in both small- and large-scale societies around the world, with an emphasis on their role in human affairs and cultural identity, growth and exchange. Topics will include public and private culture, fine or high arts, folk art, and popular culture.
Prerequisite(s):  3rd-year AIC standing or consent of instructor.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AIWA 402A -- Advanced Studies in a Global Ethos and the Arts  (3-5 units)
Description:  This course will examine how appreciation, education and practices in the arts are reflected in and contribute to the development of the fundamental character and values of societies around the world.
Prerequisite(s):  instructor consent for non-AIC students.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AIWA 403 -- Critical Issues in Contemporary Art  (3 units)
Description:  This course will provide an examination of major theoretical and critical concerns in world visual and performing arts within the past 25 years, with emphasis on the relations with broader cultural, social, and political considerations. Guided individual presentations and discussion of selected materials will be required.
Prerequisite(s):  AIFA 202 or consent of instructor.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AIWA 404B -- Advanced Studies in Cultural Theory: Issues in Literary Theory  (3 units)
Description:  This course deals with problems of critical theory and also considers the growth and development of comparative literary studies. It provides an introduction to literary and cultural theory and to some of the key problems or questions that animate theoretical discussion among literary scholars today.
Prerequisite(s):  instructor consent for non-AIC students.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.