“Musicians can perform diplomatic functions. Beyond the official responsibilities, they disseminate models of relationships to others that diplomatic practice can draw on or even adopt.”
- Frédéric Ramel and Cécile Prévost-Thomas, International Relations, Music and Diplomacy, 2018
The Diplomacy and the Arts concentration provides a foundation for those interested in putting art and an understanding of aesthetics into the service of community formation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Likely vocations could include work in museums, galleries or as a studio artist, among others. Students selecting this concentration will place the study and practice of diplomacy into conversation with the disciplines of literary studies, studio art, the history of art and architecture, peace studies, religion, and writing, rhetoric and discourse.
Students in the Diplomacy and the Arts concentration are required to take six courses from the following list.
| Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Choose six from the following, at least two must be taken at the 300-level: | 24 | |
| HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND NEGRITUDE | ||
| AFRICAN DIASPORA WOMEN WRITERS | ||
| JAZZ AND THE DIASPORIC IMAGINATION | ||
| RADICAL AESTHETICS OF HIP HOP | ||
| THE LITERATURE OF IDENTITY | ||
| THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT | ||
| DIGITAL FOUNDATIONS | ||
| CREATING ART | ||
| TWO-DIMENSIONAL FOUNDATIONS | ||
| BEGINNING DRAWING | ||
| THREE DIMENSIONAL FOUNDATIONS | ||
| ART & ARTISTS IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE | ||
| THINKING PHOTOGRAPHY | ||
| BEGINNING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | ||
| VIDEO ART | ||
| MURAL PAINTING | ||
| INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| COMMUNICATION, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY | ||
| INTERNATIONAL/GLOBAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| CULTURES IN CONVERSATION | ||
| LEADERSHIP AND DIPLOMACY | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS | ||
| URBAN/CITY DESIGN | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ART | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN ART | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN ART | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO ARTS OF THE AMERICAS | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS ON THE ART INSTITUTE | ||
| POST-COLONIAL AFRICAN ART | ||
| BUDDHIST ART | ||
| ISLAMIC ART | ||
| MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART | ||
| MEXICAN ART | ||
| MODERN ARCHITECTURE | ||
| MUSEUM AND NON-PROFIT ARTS MANAGEMENT | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE | ||
| ART SINCE 1975 | ||
| TOPICS ON WOMEN AND ART | ||
| THE EVOLVING MUSEUM: HISTORIES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES | ||
| MUSEUM STUDIES INTERNSHIP | ||
| MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART | ||
| EXPERIENCING MEXICAN ART | ||
| DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN CINEMA AND TELEVISION | ||
| VOICES OF WAR AND PEACE: ART, LITERATURE AND FILM | ||
| PICTURES OF INJUSTICE: NARRATIVE ARTS IN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS | ||
| ARCHEOLOGY OF POWER: TESTIMONIES FROM FILM, LITERATURE, AND NARRATIVES | ||
| TRAUMA, ART & RESILIENCE | ||
| RELIGION AND THE ARTS | ||
| READING BETWEEN THE GROOVES: THE RHETORICAL POWER OF POPULAR MUSIC | ||
| SOCIAL MOVEMENT, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES | ||
| VISUAL RHETORIC | ||
| MENTORING YOUTH IN COMMUNITY WRITING GROUPS | ||
| FIELDWORK IN ARTS WRITING | ||
| WRITING AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT | ||
| ETHICAL THEORIES | ||
| PHILOSOPHY AND FILM | ||
| BLACK AESTHETIC THOUGHT | ||
| AESTHETICS | ||