Spring 2027

Seeing Race: Anti-racism and Visual Culture

Introduction to visual cultures examining how images shape perceptions of race, covering visual surveillance, racial profiling, and anti-racist visual activism.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 93.7% A/AB (n=175 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.79 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=243 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop working understanding of what images do and how they operate to shape how we see race, our assumptions about race, and our ideas about self and other.

  • Develop skill in critical analysis of images, especially in terms of racialization and its shaping intersections with gender, sexuality, and ability.

  • Develop knowledge of de-colonial and anti-racist images and visual culture that shows awareness of history’s impact on the present, ability to recognize and question assumptions, and a consciousness of self and other.

  • Develop ability to apply skills in critical analysis and knowledge of de-colonial and anti-racist images and visual culture to produce critical and creative interventions in visual media that shows awareness of history’s impact on the present, ability to recognize and question assumptions, and a consciousness of self and other.

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Prerequisites

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 93.7% A/AB (n=175 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.79 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=243 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Visual surveillance and racial profiling
  • Intersections of race with gender, sexuality, and ability
  • Spectacle of racialized violence and stereotypes
  • Ethics of looking and taking images

Skills

  • Critical analysis of images regarding racialization and intersections with gender, sexuality, and ability.
  • Knowledge of de-colonial and anti-racist visual culture and recognizing historical impacts on the present.
  • Producing critical and creative interventions in visual media.

Grades

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About this comparison

1292 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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