ART HIS C136BBlack Women's Aesthetic Futures
Art History · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Study combines Black women’s art and criticism from the 1970s to today with Afrofuturism and Black feminist theory. Definition, refinement, and application of visual analysis to media that are anchored within and beyond the visual. Through lively and informed discussion, worksheets, and digital research projects, analysis of a range of Black women’s aesthetic practices that span fine art, film, and popular music; social constructions of race, gender, and sexuality; notions of community and belonging; the significance of self-fashioning; the relationship between Black art and Black study; and the speculative imagination as a mode of Black female becoming. Consideration of how these topics come to bear on present-day understandings of the human, the body, and the future. Concurrently scheduled with course C236B.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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