Visual arts students at the University of California, San Diego must exhibit themselves in the buff before a naked class of 20 and a nude professor or fail an upper-level course, a disgusted mom told a local TV station.

But faculty members and former students at the public university defend the non-required course and maintain that participants in the “performing the self” class may also employ figurative nudity to pass the final.

The issue revolves around what the syllabus shown in the KGTV-TV report refers to as the “erotic self” assignment, requiring students to “create a gesture that traces the outlines or speaks about your ‘erotic self(s).’”

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