ARTE 501

Fall 2025 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 4 hours.

A range of topical issues are explored, which may vary from semester to semester, but may include children's artistic development, visual culture and curriculum, the philosophy of art, and cultural studies.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms, if topics vary, to a maximum of 16 hours.

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ARTE 501 class schedule data for fall 2025
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
49914
Lecture-Discussion
JBS
4:00PM -6:40PM
T
131 Flagg Hall
Bergmark, J
Smith, B
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/25-12/10/25
Section Title:
Critical Narr Inqry & Lstn Ped
Section Info:
Special Topics in Art Education: Critical Narrative Inquiry and Listening Pedagogy Course description: This graduate-level course explores the theory and practice of public art, community-based art and art education through the interrelated frameworks of critical narrative inquiry and listening pedagogy. Grounded in commitments to social justice, the course considers how artists, educators, and cultural workers create spaces of collective meaning-making, public engagement, and care within and beyond traditional K–12 and institutional settings. We will examine how storytelling, memory, and embodied knowledge operate within community arts as tools for advocacy, healing, and transformation. Through an emphasis on listening as an ethical and pedagogical practice, students will explore how deep engagement with participants’ lived experiences can shape collaborative, creative processes that honor community knowledge and listen intently to underrepresented voices. Course topics include the history and future of community arts, the politics of participation, relational aesthetics, and the possibilities and tensions of public art. Students will conceptualize and/or develop arts-based research projects that attend to place, identity, and power, while critically reflecting on their role as listeners, co-creators, and advocates within the work.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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