Submitted for upcoming Department Committee/SB approval. Course Description as follows:
This course examines a process that is often taken for granted—the act of seeing. 'Seeing' is frequently thought of as a physical/natural process, referring to the sense or faculty of sight. Seeing is assumed to be the direct, unmediated visual reception of the object seen by the observer/viewer.
The readings and discussions in this course will complicate such premises through introducing students to the critical rethinking and scholarship that situate and problematize the idea of ‘seeing’, drawing from the fields of cultural theory, feminist theory, feminist science and technology studies and feminist disability studies. As the visual theorist John Berger points out, 'seeing is not a question of mechanically reacting to stimuli; it can only be thought of in this way if one isolates the small part of the process which concerns the eye's retina.' The following are some of the key questions the course aims to engage: How is a social order maintained and naturalized through dominant ways of seeing? Can the gaze be gendered? How does the technological/digital gaze re-enforce the social gaze? Can there be transformative and oppositional ways of seeing?

1) Students will be able to situate 'seeing' in power and gender relations. 
2) Students would be able to critically interrogate popular images and visual culture and thus work towards a more gender-just society. 
3) Student can see how technology is not neutral and artificial intelligence reinforces social prejudices. 

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