MLL 334 - Deaf View Image Art (De’VIA) and Deaf Artists

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Social Justice
This course will focus on Deaf Artists and Deaf View Image Art- De’VIA, art created by Deaf artists with the intent of showcasing their experiences of being Deaf in their work with resistance and affirmation with a social justice overlay.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

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

Choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.
1. Students reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture.
Understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
1. Students differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art.
2. Students describe the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places.
3. Students analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, justifying conclusions made in the analysis.
Reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of the work of others.
1. Students identify intentions of those creating artworks, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of purposes in particular works.
2. Students describe meanings of artworks by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.
3. Students reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art.
Make connections between Deaf cultural experiences and expression related to social justice.
1. Students identify affirmation art using readings and discussions and link those with social justice responses to “affirmation” of being Deaf.
2. Students identify resistance art using readings and discussions and associate those with social justice responses to resistance to Audism and other oppressive acts on Deaf people.

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values 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.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.