Professor
Davida Persaud
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Spring 2024 - This class is 3 hrs long (mandatory attendance) but it honestly went by so quick! Every lecture begins with guest speakers talking about their different art-based organizations and we conclude with a panel. We're then given a 10-minute break and continue on with different exercises and activities. That's basically the breakdown of class. Work-wise, it's not very heavy but you are expected to do weekly discussion posts on readings and creative praxis (which is started in class). There's also a small group video that is very simple! The midterm and final are relatively easy IMO. It's a case study paper on an LA arts-based organization (the midterm is 6 pages, and it basically gets you started for your final paper). The final paper is an expansion of the midterm (10 pages), you are expected to interview the organization (not as bad as you'd think) and delve deeper into the organization and their work while also including class materials. I highly recommend this course! Persaud and the TA's made this class very engaging, I really enjoyed my time in this class!
Spring 2024 - This class is 3 hrs long (mandatory attendance) but it honestly went by so quick! Every lecture begins with guest speakers talking about their different art-based organizations and we conclude with a panel. We're then given a 10-minute break and continue on with different exercises and activities. That's basically the breakdown of class. Work-wise, it's not very heavy but you are expected to do weekly discussion posts on readings and creative praxis (which is started in class). There's also a small group video that is very simple! The midterm and final are relatively easy IMO. It's a case study paper on an LA arts-based organization (the midterm is 6 pages, and it basically gets you started for your final paper). The final paper is an expansion of the midterm (10 pages), you are expected to interview the organization (not as bad as you'd think) and delve deeper into the organization and their work while also including class materials. I highly recommend this course! Persaud and the TA's made this class very engaging, I really enjoyed my time in this class!
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Winter 2024 - Love love loveeeeee this class. Davida is such an amazing professor, and she does such an excellent job of making the class material both accessible and engaging. Especially in what is basically an intro to theory class, she manages to challenge students with difficult (but interesting!) readings while also being a very encouraging and helpful instructor. The prompts for papers are very open-ended, interesting, and honestly fun to take on--she really does encourage each student to make their own unique contributions to every class discussion, which makes this course a very inclusive and enriching space.
Winter 2024 - Love love loveeeeee this class. Davida is such an amazing professor, and she does such an excellent job of making the class material both accessible and engaging. Especially in what is basically an intro to theory class, she manages to challenge students with difficult (but interesting!) readings while also being a very encouraging and helpful instructor. The prompts for papers are very open-ended, interesting, and honestly fun to take on--she really does encourage each student to make their own unique contributions to every class discussion, which makes this course a very inclusive and enriching space.
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Spring 2024 - Ugh I love Davida so much--she's such an engaging, rigorous but approachable professor that really cares about her class and her students. Overall, this was a good class; it basically functions as an intro to museology/museum studies, but there's a lot of reading. I wish we did learn how to analyze specific museum artifacts and curatorial practices, but the museum visits were fun and the final project (curating your own museum exhibit) was super cool.
Spring 2024 - Ugh I love Davida so much--she's such an engaging, rigorous but approachable professor that really cares about her class and her students. Overall, this was a good class; it basically functions as an intro to museology/museum studies, but there's a lot of reading. I wish we did learn how to analyze specific museum artifacts and curatorial practices, but the museum visits were fun and the final project (curating your own museum exhibit) was super cool.
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