Section Info: GNDST-204GA-01

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

REGISTRATION DETAILS

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
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.