AHI 376 IMAGINE HOME

This course is a history of images that shape and confine American ideas of home. Students will study the cultural meanings conveyed by building and product design, art, film, and mass media; the social values and norms they fix or break; and the exclusions and inequities they fight or help sustain. Through research, field trips, and creative work, students will analyze local residences.

Credits

4

Notes

Fall 2025 only: Student work may be published, with student permission, as part of A Right to Housing grant-funded project. Students will work with Krane Scholar-in-Residence Andrei Harwell, architect and director of Yale Urban Design Workshop, on building analysis studies. Attendance of field trips, film screenings, and special events may be required outside of class time.

Cross Listed Courses

This is the same course as AMS 376/ARC 376.

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 20 students.

Attributes

MOIB, MOIE