AH 107 - Ways of Seeing: The Domestic Interior

Credits: 4
Introduction to the design history and cultural significance of domestic interiors in a range of places and periods. Students will investigate how the visual, spatial, and material aspects of living environments both express and actively shape changing values. Topics include aspects of planning decoration, and social usage; shifting conceptions of privacy and family; and the role of design in the formation of gender, class, and national identities.
Note(s): (Fulfills humanities requirement; fulfills humanistic inquiry.)
M. Hellman

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