Course Description This course presents students with an overview of the methods and strategies applicable in cultural studies, and lays the foundation for analyzing art objects and artistic practices with a given social setting. It follows an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing how culture acts on individuals in a society, how it is produced and where...Read More

Course Description This course acquaints the learner with approaches to analysis and interpretation of contemporary art in Uganda. It provides information on the changing social and political context within which Uganda’s contemporary art is locally constituted. Founded by Mrs. Margaret Trowell in 1937, the Makerere Art School is the oldest and most influential art training...Read More

Course Description The seminar will aim at evaluating the viability of the research, its contribution to the existing body of knowledge, procedures in the selection and evaluation of proposed research projects, and techniques of data collection, handling, and analysis. The Seminar Series will also aim at enabling students to develop knowledge and capacity to bridge...Read More

Course Description Discussion of Sculpture as language that has resulted from man’s engagement with his environment since time immemorial. The course will also establish and argue that local traditions and those elsewhere are diverse; the experiences of colonial and post-colonial Africa and East Africa in particular; the development of new traditions of visual practice while...Read More

Course Description In this course the candidate analyses the final data collected from the field. The data processing which involves editing and coding is carried out to allow easy analysis of the data. After Data analysis, the candidate writes the thesis for submission to the graduate school through the supervisors. The thesis will be not...Read More