ART 358 - Engenderings

This course sets out to learn from specific challenges that art and artists have posed to a system of gender that values some forms of life over others. Each iteration of the course will start with a specific challenge and then read within the history of gender politics and practice to see what changes in light of that challenge. For instance, what has to change in understandings and readings of the feminist relationship between sex and gender in light of the work of trans artists? What has to change in understandings and readings of gender-based oppression in light of the work of black feminists? In the Fall of 2025, we will take the Cooley Gallery exhibition of textile artist Freddie Robins as a prompt to study the long relationship between labor and gender.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): ART 201
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Repeatable for Credit: May be taken 3 times for credit
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).