UISA 180D - Gender, Power and Representation in the Arts

3 credit(s) High Impact Practice: Diversity
This course integrates gender studies with the current instructor’s chosen field in the visual, literary, or performing arts. The course analyzes how the social construction of gender has affected this art form as well as the audience/reader/viewer. Students use their critical and creative thinking skills as they critique works in the given artistic discipline, by observing such aspects as form, content, and aesthetic judgement. Assigned reading, group discussion, presentations, and research projects allow students repeated opportunities to consider, analyze, discuss, and write critically. Focus is on artists and their work who have both functioned within and challenged normalized gender stereotypes and hegemonies.

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