Art and/as Social Justice

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Consider and synthesize definitions of or strategies for defining social justice.
• Identify and analyze artistic strategies that address themes of social justice, activism, or protest.
• Evaluate the role of artists and visual culture in social and political movements across diverse contexts and time periods.
• Conduct independent research and produce written and/or visual projects that engage with art and social justice, including citations to formal research components.
• Present informed critical arguments through oral and written formats. Formal and/or semi-formal contexts of presenting will be used.
• This course engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical thinking, analysis, and debate, and inclusion of a reading does not imply endorsement.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Syllabus & Expectations Quiz	10 points
Participation / Attendance in-class -- 5 pts each (~6-8 total)	30-40 points
Class Leadership Video	15 points
All Class Discussion Boards, including Weatherspoon Art Museum Viewing Response Discussion Boards (10 pts x 4)	40 points
Final Project Paper or Zine	50 points
Final Paper/Zine Project Presentation. In-person or recorded	20 points

Grading Scale:

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100	A
90-92	A-
87-89	B+
83-86	B
80-82	B-
77-79	C+
73-76	C
70-72	C-
67-69	D+
63-66	D
60-62	D-
59 and below	F

Attendance/Participation:

This is a F2F class. You may take 2 unexcused absences over the course of the semester with no impact on your grade and are not expected to contact the professor about absences caused by minor illnesses or isolated life-events.

There will be approximately 6-8 in-class or follow-up participation/attendance assignments that constitute our class Participation/Attendance grade.

Two of the Participation/Attendance category grades will be “auto” dropped at the end of the term – these are your unexcused absences. Once a student has exceeded 2 missed in-class Participation/Attendance assignments, they will receive zeros for missed Participation/Attendance. All missed assignments in this category will appear as zeros until the end of the semester to allow students to keep track of their current count if missed Participation/Attendance and the 2 excused absences will be dropped during final grading.

OARS accommodations will, of course, be accounted for according to OARS paperwork.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.