Description: Looking to a range of media and artistic/architectural forms—from video art, performance, painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, urban planning, cinema, and dance—this class will examine how different countries across the globe engage with the often conflicting intersections of tradition, history, and modernity. Spanning the entirety of the inhabited globe, this class will move from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, Oceania, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and North America.