HAAVC 2000 courses develop students' visual analysis skills while providing the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the topic at hand. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created.COURSE DESCRIPTIONOakland is a unicorn: a Pacific switchboard of railroads, shipping, aviation, freeways and subways; a second city in the shadow of San Francisco that has risen to national prominence; a one-time industrial powerhouse that crashed amid the promise of California’s postwar suburban boom; a polyglot citizenry whose range embraces the globe and visions of the future.  This hybrid class will investigate Oakland’s history and current conditions, its startling innovations and its tragic, race-based exclusions.  Although much of the class will occur online, students must live close enough to Oakland to participate in several group walking tours as well as be able to conduct their own project-based explorations of urban sites in the town.  You will need to use either BART, AC Transit, a car, a bicycle or your walking shoes to get around Oakland independently and when we meet as a group.

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