Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

FAA 411 — Contemporary African Art

FAA department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

At the end of the course, students should be able to:
understand contemporary African art history
its relevance to cultural production
symbolic icons of the contemporary African art world
explore its iconographies
interpret forms in contemporary African art

Course contents

The course is a survey of the beginnings of modern art in Africa. It evaluates chronological developments in the evolution of artistic styles and forms from the mid-nineteenth century to the present on a pan-continental scale. It will also promote Diaspora traditions of modernism.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study FAA 411.

FAA 411 — Contemporary African Art

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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