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GEN&WS 414

CONTEMPORARY QUEER ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

3 credits.

Queer art and visual culture are defined not only through their subject matter but also by the methods through which they appropriate and subvert conventional visual practices. Such tactics may include a work's means of production, its formal properties, and the conditions of its reception. The political imperatives of a queer or queered position, linked to the intersections of race, class, sex and gender will shape thematic investigations of practices related to activism, documentation, abstraction, mining the archive, craft, camp, and drag, among others. Case studies will be drawn from film, performance, comics, video games, and fine art. Projects will engage text- and studio-based research in an interdisciplinary push to integrate theory and practice. No prior art or design experience required. Not open to students with credit for GENWS 412 prior to Fall 2026.

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Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage in critical discourse on the concepts, themes and strategies key to queer art and visual culture. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of influential practitioners and texts in the field. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze and apply text- and studio-based practices to generate projects that respond to or participate in a dialogue on queer theory. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Synthesize course content with your individual academic research and thesis interests. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Conduct additional research to make a critical or creative contribution to the study of queer art and visual culture Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage in critical discourse on the concepts, themes and strategies key to queer art and visual culture. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of influential practitioners and texts in the field. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze and apply text- and studio-based practices to generate projects that respond to or participate in a dialogue on queer theory. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Synthesize course content with your individual academic research and thesis interests. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Conduct additional research to make a critical or creative contribution to the study of queer art and visual culture Audience: Graduate

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