Course Info: HACU-0246

CourseHACU-0246 Visions Environmental Justice
Long TitleRighting Wrongs: Visions of Environmental Justice
Term2019F
Note(s) Satisfies Distribution
Textbook information
Meeting InfoJerome Liebling CenterüJerome Liebling Center 120ü120 on FüF from 10:30-11:50ü1:00-3:00
FacultyHope Tucker
Capacity16
Available4
Waitlist0
Distribution(s) Arts, Design, and Media
Cumulative Skill(s)Independent Work
Multiple Cultural Perspectives
Additional Info Lab Fee: $65. Field trip fee: TBD. In this course, students can generally expect to spend 8 to 10 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.
Description

"The way to right wrongs," said journalist Ida B. Wells, "is to turn the light of truth upon them." Through close examination of works by artists, filmmakers, photographers, and cultural workers who have turned towards borders and boardrooms; fields and factories; habitats and playgrounds; wetlands and wilderness, this course advanced students' skills in reading and making images as they expanded their understanding of environmental justice. Students studied a series of works and their relationship to the historical and cultural context (economic, political, intellectual and artistic) from which they came as they created responses to a variety of texts by Appalshop, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Robert Del Tredici, Kevin Jerome Everson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Judith Helfand, Barbara Kopple, Dorothea Lange, Pare Lorenz, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ana Mendieta, Richard Misrach, Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Brett Story, Peter Watkins, Travis Wilkerson. Class meetings included screenings, discussions, and production exercises. Students developed their skills in creating collective spaces of critical inquiry and individual research pathways.