Section Info: GNDST-333TX-01

Course Title: Advanced Seminar: 'Abolition and Radical Textiles'
Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024
Term: Fall Semester 2024
Description: How do the topics of abolition and textiles come together? Marginalized communities have historically used folkloric, textile arts and material culture to amplify abolitionist causes. From secret quilt codes of the Underground Railroad to an abolitionist community sustained by a silk mill in Florence, Massachusetts how might thinking with textiles intervene on patriarchal systems rooted in rigidity, isolation and punishment? From the social devaluation of domesticized and feminized labor of weaving, quilting, sewing to banners, students will theorize and experiment with textiles, leaving with a grounded understanding of how textiles/fibers can and have played an essential role in the history of abolition.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , CBL - Community-Based Learning , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Ren-yo Hwang             rhwang@mtholyoke.edu  
Sarah Stefana Smith             sarahstefanasmith@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024   Seminar   Wednesday   01:30PM - 04:20PM   ART - Art   220   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: 8 credits in Critical Race and Political Economy, Gender Studies, and/or Art Studio. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
CRPE0001   CRPE-1: CRPE - Major Pathway/Minor   This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE major pathway and the CRPE minor.  
CRPE0003   CRPE-3: Critical Social Thought - Major Pathway   This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Critical Social Thought major pathway.  

Cross-listed Sections        
CRPE-373-01 Abolition and Radical Textiles  
ARTST-380TX-01 Abolition and Radical Textiles  
GNDST-333TX-01 Abolition and Radical Textiles  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 28     Enrollment: 25     Available: 0     Waitlist: 3
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.