JS 307 - Rhetorics of Craft

This course explores the politics and rhetorics of craft in an industrial and post-industrial age. By what means and methods does craft intervene in contemporary discourse? A central goal of our inquiry will be to map the radical potential of aesthetics in the service of revolt, remediation, attention, and identity formation, especially when practiced and received by otherwise underrepresented or overlooked individuals and groups. This course is interdisciplinary in approach and active in its method. Expect in-class demos and experimentation in most of the crafts we study.

Credits: 4

Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors Only

Core: Junior Seminar

Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: American Studies, Gender Studies, English