By Angela Carone. A UCSD professor has been at the center of a media storm because he requires students to do just that. Associate professor Ricardo Dominguez has been at the center of a media storm since a parent of one his students at the University of California, San Diego complained to a local news outlet about a nudity requirement in his class. Dominguez, who has taught the class on performance and body art, known as VIS A, for 11 years without complaint, said much of what is being reported is not true. The story has gone viral. Newspapers in Russia and Germany have interviewed Dominguez about the class. Dominguez said the students who elect to take this class — which is not required for graduation - are on track to become artists and are learning how to implement their craft.


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Illustration by Flickr user Rob van Roon. Ricardo Dominguez is not shy about nudity. For over a decade, he's been teaching performance art classes at the University of California, San Diego, including some sessions where he and his students collectively take off their clothes in order to metaphorically reveal themselves to one another. This Thursday, there will be another such class, where students will bare it all in a candlelit circle—but this semester is not like other semesters, because one student's mother has accused Dominguez of being a pervert.
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A college professor has been criticised after insisting his students take an end-of-year exam in the nude. Ricardo Dominguez, who teaches a visual arts class at the University of California at San Diego , required the students to be naked for the final part of the course. The unconventional assessment came to light after the mother of one of the students complained about the nakedness.
A professor's assignment in which all students are naked and he is, too offers a chance for him to explain how to teach performance art. Art instruction -- which has long featured nude models -- is not the same as instruction in other subjects. But a complaint from the parent of a student at the University of California at San Diego has drawn attention to the pedagogy behind a course in which all students and the professor are naked for a class session. The mother of a student both anonymous complained to a San Diego television station about the assignment of Ricardo Dominguez, an associate professor of visual arts, for his course called "Performing for the Self. In an email interview, Dominguez offered a take on the assignment that differed in part from that of the television station, but agreed that students and the professor are nude for the session on "the erotic self.