College and University Courses
The Center has commissioned leading scholars and educators to create materials for self-study or classroom courses on topics of visual art, music, film, poetry, and popular culture. Each course includes a semester’s worth of readings, discussions, and assignments. Are you ready to learn? Or would you like to take these materials and use them at your school?
The courses are by: Laura Allred Hurtado, Jeremy Grimshaw, Lance Larsen, Eowyn Wilcox McComb, Mason Kamana Allred, Kimberly Johnson, and April Makgoeng.
Perspectives on Image and Meaning: Mormon Art from Its Founding to the Present
By Laura Allred Hurtado
The purpose of this course is to expand a definition of Mormon art through readings, careful looking, and discussion. In each session, students will explore a case study—an in-depth exploration of one or a handful of works that stand as an example of a larger idea, concept, or theme—that will be explored each week, with the support of scholarly text and research, approaching each work with formal and critical analysis.