MAPPING CHANGE explores the intersections of art and cartography while examining the cultural, social, and political dimensions of mapmaking. Students work towards creating a collective interdisciplinary map of change within the neighborhoods they have called home, navigating how these narratives have continued to shape and inform their identities and define their positions within a global context. Investigating a broad range of systemic challenges including displacement, gentrification, pollution, inequity, healthcare, cultural identity and community, each student creates a literal or conceptual map that interweaves histories of the land with layered stories of its people. Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level studios deepen students’ knowledge of the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class from both domestic and global perspectives through art, writing, and design practices. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational, and intersectional approaches for producing works related to power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from the following interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies, Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x and Latino /a/x studies, Women’s studies, border studies, cultural studies, Queer studies and global racialized and marginalized communities. Studio courses bridge the gap between seminar and studio courses and can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

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