ART 426 - Contemporary Visual Studies II

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C
Students engage in focused, thematic study of contemporary art and visual cultures, through close reading, evidence-based writing, and in-depth research. They gain familiarity with research methods and contemporary methodologies, including sociological, post-structuralist, and new materialist approaches. Repeatable when topic varies.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements; and ART 326.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Repeatability: May be repeated once for credit for a maximum of 6 units.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY

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

Demonstrate understanding of key research methodologies for contemporary visual studies, including sociological, poststructuralist, and new materialist approaches;
Use strategies of close observation and appropriate vocabulary to describe and analyze contemporary visual culture objects and events;
Collaborate with peers to present information about a specific issue of art or visual culture since the 1990s;
Apply comprehension of theories of contemporary visuality, the global impact of visual culture, and current research methods to a short independent research project;
Develop a short piece of writing from proposal through revised drafts to finished text.

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.