[KarlMalone]

Get naked or fail: Professor requires students to take final in the nude

A UC San Diego professor is reportedly requiring his students to take their final exam in the nude, and one mother is outraged.

The class is Visual Arts 104A: Performing the Self, and according to KGTV Associate Professor Ricardo Dominguez has been teaching it for 11 years. Dominguez says the class involves students acting out a series of gestures. “It focuses on the history of body art and performance art in relation to the question of the self or subjectivity,” said Dominguez.

A mother of a student in the class claims that her daughter was forced to perform nude for her final in the class, or risk getting a failing grade.

“It bothers me, I’m not sending her to school for this,” the mother told KGTV. She asked to remain anonymous. “And to blanketly say you must be naked in order to pass my class. It makes me sick to my stomach.”

Dominguez says it’s true, his students have to be nude to pass the final. He said all of the students including himself were naked, and he defends his policy. “It’s a standard canvas for performance art and body art.”

Dominguez also says that his students know what is expected of them from the beginning of the semester. “If they are uncomfortable with this gesture they should not take the class.”