WMST250

Introduction to WGSS: Art and Culture

Credit only granted for: WMST250 or WGSS250. Formerly: WMST250. Provides students with a critical introduction to the ways that art and art activism have served as a conduit to understanding and challenging systems of inequity and practices of normativity. Interrogating the categories of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, the course will provide students with an examination of how artists have responded to pressing social justice issues of their eras. While the course centers visual art, students will also engage genres such as music, plays, literature, digital and performance art as arenas of social change.

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.50 between 5,144 students*

WMST250 Grade Distribution+-051015202530354045505560657075% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 19.85%
A: 36.33%
A+: 14.6%
B-: 2.53%
B: 7.21%
B+: 10.21%
C-: 0.49%
C: 1.26%
C+: 1.48%
D-: 0.25%
D: 0.56%
D+: 0.12%
F: 0.91%
W: 3.21%
other: 0.99%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.