The mother of a UC San Diego student is outraged and taking her story to the media after her daughter was faced with the decision to either strip down naked for her class or fail it altogether.
The visual arts class called ‘Performing the Self’ requires the students (and teacher) to get naked in front of about 20 of their peers in order to pass the final.
Associate Professor Ricardo Dominguez, who has taught this class for the past 11 years, is defending his assignment by telling San Diego’s 10News “It's a standard canvas for performance art and body art. It is very all controlled.”
Dominguez added, "If they are uncomfortable with this gesture they should not take the class.”
However, the student’s mother is livid and told 10News, “It makes me sick to my stomach.”
Apparently Dominguez never had one complaint about this assignment in all of his years teaching the class, but this unidentified mother is calling it “perversity.”
The student herself hasn’t spoken out about it, but many Facebook readers have commented that she should’ve read the syllabus at the beginning of the class. Her mother claimed, however, it was not made clear at the start of the class.
“Nothing was ever explained, nothing was ever stipulated prior to Thursday," she complained.
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