Document Type
Syllabi
School
CLA
Department
ART
Course Subject
ARTH
Course Number
1710
Course Section
01
Course Title
Visual Constructions of Gender
Academic Term and Year
Winter 2017
Credits
4.00
Hamline Plan Letter
D, F
Area of Study
ARTH, WSTD
Course Description
Goals: This interdisciplinary themed course focuses on visual images of gender in modern and contemporary western culture. From the "Fallen Woman" to the "Queer Eye", our understanding of masculinity(ies) and femininity(ies) has been determined in part by the visual images we encounter in the media and the art world; these images reflect societal imperatives and anxieties regarding sex and gender relations, and simultaneously help to construct our ideas about them. Content: Explores such questions as: To what degree are these images artificially constructed and to what purposes? How do such constructions cross national/international borders? How do they relate to verbal and literary constructions of the period? Also explores literary and theoretical writings, and images from both art and the media. Taught: Alternate years Credits: 4 credits
Recommended Citation
Paulk, Ann Bronwyn, "ARTH1710-01.Visual Constructions of Gender.J17.Paulk,Ann Bronwyn" (2017). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 11921.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/11921