ART 326 - Contemporary Visual Studies I

Units: 3
Investigation of how art and visual culture since 1989 have engaged with politics, performativity, materiality, participation, and/or mediation.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: ART 120.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ART 4071.
Repeatability: May repeat once for credit for a maximum of 6 units when topic varies.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Relate and explain the ideas of key thinkers on contemporary art and visual culture through close analysis of primary and secondary texts;
Distinguish economic, geographical, cultural, and political factors that have shaped art since 1989;
Use critical and theoretical vocabulary to articulate a response to specific concerns about art or visual culture since the 1990s;
Reenact and empathize with the positions of artists, critics, and other cultural producers;
Locate resources in the Bay area for contemporary art and visual culture and review how local institutions participate in shaping ideas about 21st century visual culture.
; 3. Use critical and theoretical vocabulary to articulate a response to specific concerns about art or visual culture since the 1990s; 4. Reenact and empathize with the positions of artists, critics, and other cultural producers; 5. Locate resources in the Bay area for contemporary art and visual culture and review how local institutions participate in shaping ideas about 21st century visual culture.