The course on youth culture covers youth culture theories, history of Austrian youth culture, as well as insights in selected youth cultures of Europe today, based on young people’s changing life worlds. We will explore and analyze youth cultural...
“Preveo que el hombre se resignará cada día a empresas más atroces; pronto no habrá sino guerreros y bandoleros” (I foresee that man will resign himself to ever greater atrocities; soon there will be no one left but warriors and bandits) Jorge Luis...
This course will introduce students to the social and historical construction of women’s roles in the Mediterranean region, from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. Though the course places special emphasis on Spain, by bringing in...
Art and Design is a practical course that covers the most important areas of studio practice. It provides the understanding necessary to approach Art and Design in an active way, paying special attention to processes followed by artists, and helping...
This course is a selective survey of major developments in Japanese visual cultures (art and architecture). Particular emphasis is placed on the relationship between art and history, religion, and literature of pre- and early modern Japan and some...
This course proposes the illustration of the various approaches, techniques and ethical values involved in the process of conserving a work of art, from the archaeological object to monumental architecture. Through the illustration of the main...
The use of new media and the Internet has fundamentally affected art and our understanding of it. With technology becoming completely intertwined with our lives, underlined by the lingering effects of the pandemic, the difference between ‘art’ and...
This interdisciplinary course examines the multifaceted dynamics of North African Identities in the context of the region’s close links with Europe, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on the ways ethnicity, language, religion, and...
Japan is a nation that has undergone huge changes in the last 150 years, transforming from a feudal society ruled by warriors, to an expansionistic imperial state, and then to a modern democracy with a pacifist constitution. This course explores how...
This course will look at Modernism as an international movement in architecture and design. Beginning with a discussion of Modernism in the arts, the course will focus upon developments in architecture and design in Europe and North America between...