Course Title: Women and Gender in the Study of Culture: 'Queer Graphics' |
Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
Description: This course will explore LGBTQ+ visibility from Pre-Liberation to the twenty-first Century through examining and responding creatively to queer designs and artworks. Through a series of traditional and digital printmaking projects, students will engage with queer theory/time, LGBTQ+ art history, expanded notions of gender identity and sexual orientation, queer aesthetics, and coding. Creating zines, posters, shirts, hankies, and other graphics in addition to research presentations, students will observe the complexities of LGBTQ+ livelihoods and their relationship to the sociopolitical landscape. |
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
Brett Taylor   |           | bretttaylor@mtholyoke.edu   |
Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025   | Lecture   | Monday and Wednesday   | 01:45PM - 04:15PM   | ART - Art   | 304   | Weekly |
Requisite Courses         | ||
Prereq: ARTST-120, ARTST-131, or ARTST-142. | Take previously   | Required   |
Comments         |
Additional Comments         |
Course materials will include some mature, and sometimes sexually explicit content. Students enrolled in this course will be responsible for some of the cost of course materials. For Art Studio majors only for the first week of pre-registration. Then open to all in the second week.   |
Course Tags         |
Cross-listed Sections         |
ARTST-280QG-01 Queer Graphics   |
GNDST-204GA-01 Queer Graphics   |
Course Availability | ||||
Section status: Waitlisted     | Capacity: 16     | Enrollment: 16     | Available: 0     | Waitlist: 6 |
BOOK INFORMATION
Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
To be determined. |           |           |
Additional Book Comments         |
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.   |