GWS 590

Fall 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and previous coursework in women's or gender studies, or consent of instructor.

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GWS 590 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42913	Lecture-Discussion	BES	4:00PM -6:40PM	T	131 Flagg Hall	Bergmark, J Smith, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Special Topics Section Info: Meets with ARTE 501. 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): Not intended for Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
	42441	Lecture-Discussion	CW	11:00AM -1:50PM	W	102 1205 W Nevada	Williams, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Section Title: Radical Black Feminisms Section Info: What makes some strands of Black feminism radical? Which stories typically narrate the formation and development of this intellectual project? Why do some contributors to Black feminist thought circulate widely and others seem to be forgotten? In this course, we will revisit the diverse origins of the intellectual, political project named as Black feminism, primarily from the perspectives of socialist lesbian, gay, and bisexual thinkers based in the U.S. and active throughout the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. We will spend time with a range of intellectuals—some lesser known, some more widely celebrated—including Wilmette Brown, Cheryl Clarke, Essex Hemphill, and the Combahee River Collective. Through engaging their critical essays, manifestos, speeches, poetry, and films, we will, first, explore how they differ in their critical attention to sexuality and class and, second, question why Black feminism is often narrated singularly, despite the vibrant range of concerns that shapes these intellectuals’ writings.