Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Power of Looking

Catalog description

(Also offered as AAAS 2222 , AFRA 2222 .) A beginning investigation into the issues of what constitutes visual culture and how race, gender, and sexuality are seen and not seen. The goals of the course include engaging with the history and scholarly dialogues around visual studies, becoming more active and critical visual consumers and critics, and understanding personal stakes and diverse positions in dialogues about visualizing gender and race.