| Course Title: Advanced Studies in Visual Cultures: 'Indigenous Futures' |
| Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2025 |
| Description: This course examines how contemporary artists from the Andes and the Amazon imagine and represent the future of their communities by putting their experiences, aesthetics and epistemologies in dialogue with global issues, such as the environmental crisis. Through analysis of a diverse corpus of works--from Guamán Poma's 17th century drawings, to Daniela Catrileo's 2023 novel Chilco--we will examine how indigenous artists and thinkers have imagined other worlds and realities, and we will explore how these works challenge ideas around race, nation, gender, and class. Students will also have a chance to test their own critical imaginations by producing narratives about the future. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Instructor To Be Announced |
| Justin Crumbaugh (email: jcrumbau@mtholyoke.edu, phone: 413-538-2445) may also be contacted for registration permissions and registration questions. |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: Two courses in Spanish at the 200-level above SPAN-212. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in Spanish. |
| Course Tags | ||
| LATAM0001 | LATAM: Latin American Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Latin American Studies major and/or 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 |
| SPAN-340DG-01 Indigenous Futures |
| ARTH-301DG-01 Indigenous Futures |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 16 | Enrollment: 15 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |