These three featured FIGS are part of the broader FIG offerings for fall of 2016. To see the full list please visit the Finding the FIG For You page.
This FIG will consider the use of symbols, rituals, and performance in the orchestration of official political authority, and explore how people outside of the political sphere use creative forms in their everyday lives to express political perspectives, negotiate power relationships, and act in response to political and social realities.
Creative people investigate material visual culture to learn why people make, use, respond to, and preserve objects or experiences. You will have an opportunity in this course to examine your own creative, investigative ways of engaging with, preserving, or experiencing objects that represent the portability of your own life. By engaging with everyday objects and our surroundings in novel ways, we will develop personal Portable Life Museums/Cabinets of Curiosity as tools to understand issues of art, culture, and identity in your own life through guided creative and research processes.
“Read Like You Mean It” will explore strategies to help students develop an active reading process that complements individual learning styles or interest as well as various kinds of reading material.