Need Help?

Skip to Content

CCA Portal

DIVST-3000-12: Catalyst for Change

Fall 2019

Subject: Diversity Studies - Studio
Type: Studio
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: Oakland
Course Dates: September 03, 2019 — December 13, 2019
Meetings: Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B2
Instructor: Pallavi Sharma

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 0/15

Description:

The course investigates how present day Asian American artists are contesting societal assumptions and subverting stereotypes through their socially engaged art practices and participation in local as well as global social movements. The students will create art projects with strong sociological and political bents, which address the undercurrent problems related, but not limited to, class gender and ethnicity. Through gallery/studio visits, reviews, online exchanges, and discussions with the members of cultural and artistic Asian American collectives, students will learn critical and conceptual framework to examine the body ofworks of selected artists and will learn to understand the strategies of resistance and empowerment movements.

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

Visit Workday to view this information.