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One mom is outraged that her daughter, who’s enrolled in a visual arts course, was forced to perform nude for her final exam or risk a failing grade.
According to KGTV and the class' associate professor, Ricardo Dominguez, the course does indeed make this requirement.
But Dominguez says his demands for the course, Visual Arts 104A: Performing the Self, are essential to the subject matter.
Dominguez told KGTV that the class involves students acting out a series of gestures, focusing "on the history of body art and performance art in relation to the question of the self or subjectivity."
Though, he adds that the nude portion of the exam, in which he and about 20 students strip down, is "very controlled" and happens in a dark room lit only by candlelight.
“It bothers me, I’m not sending her to school for this,” the student's mother told KGTV. "And to blanketly say you must be naked in order to pass my class. It makes me sick to my stomach.”
Dominguez says in his 11 years teaching the course, he's never received a complaint. He says all students know about the requirement ahead of time.
“If they are uncomfortable with this gesture they should not take the class.”
The mom of Dominguez's student told KGTV her daughter did not know about the nudity before taking the class.
“Nothing was ever explained, nothing was ever stipulated prior to [the exam]," she said.
