Minoritarian Aesthetics Graduate Minor
for the Graduate Minor in Minoritarian Aesthetics
The Minoritarian Aesthetics graduate minor is committed to how aesthetics and politics equally provide a blueprint for transformative world–making possibilities. The minor pays close attention to aesthetic practices across minor voices and experiences by working across media, genre, discipline, and practice-based pedagogy. Working alongside artists, scholars, pedagogues, cultural workers and art building initiatives across form, the minor will follow the traditions of a performance studies analytic to place pressure on conventional constructions of difference.
for the Graduate Minor in Minoritarian Aesthetics
Minoritarian Aesthetics Graduate Minor
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Select 12 hours from the following: | ||
| FAA 594 | Writing the Minor - Minoritarian Aesthetics | 4 |
| FAA 596 | Experiments in Minoritarian Aesthetics | 4 |
| FAA 495 | Minoritarian Aesthetics Practicum | 4 |
| FAA 490 | Minoritarian Aesthetics Independent Study (1 to 4 hours, repeatable for no more than 4 hours towards the minor) | 4 |
| Total Hours | 12 | |
for the Graduate Minor in Minoritarian Aesthetics
- Students will understand the foundational texts and theories underpinning minoritarian aesthetics.
- Using these concepts, students will create professional and publishable essays, and presentations based in the field’s discourse concerning interactions between aesthetics, performance, politics, and identity.
- Students will learn to work collaboratively, focusing on communicating and sharing ideas together, both to foster community as well as establish the importance of these skills to professional academia.