Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 19, 2016 6:14PM EST
- Course Catalog - January 19, 2016 6:21PM EST
Classes
VISST 1101
Course Description
DEA 1101 is an introductory design studio. The primary course objective is to introduce principles of visual literacy as it pertains to two-dimensional and three-dimensional issues in design at all scales. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DEA 1101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW M Van Rensselaer Hall 4101
Instructors
Elliott, J
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Additional Information
Permission of instructor is required for non-DEA majors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Priority given to DEA majors. Cost of materials: approx. $200.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DEA 1101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR M Van Rensselaer Hall 4101
Instructors
Elliott, J
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Additional Information
Permission of instructor is required for non-DEA majors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Priority given to DEA majors. Cost of materials: approx. $200.
VISST 2174
Course Description
Intensive consideration of the ways films generate meaning and of the ways we attribute meaning and value to films. Discussion ranges over commercial narrative, art cinema, documentary, and personal film ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 2540, PMA 6540, VISST 6174
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Wessels, C
VISST 2511
Course Description
Weekly assignments in basic elements of choreography. Students compose and present short studies that are discussed and reworked. Problems are defined and explored through class improvisations. Informal ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 2300, PMA 3300, PMA 4300, PMA 4301
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
Instructors
Chu, J
VISST 2645
Course Description
A survey of European art from 1400-1750, including all arts, but emphasizing painting and the analysis of works by such major artists as Donatello, Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2400
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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Lazzaro, C
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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Lazzaro, C
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
VISST 2744
Course Description
An introduction to Indonesia through its arts. The course combines hands-on instruction in the performance of gamelan music and the academic study of a broader range of Indonesian music in its sociocultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2245, MUSIC 1341
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MF Lincoln Hall B24
Instructors
Miller, C
- W Lincoln Hall 140
Instructors
VISST 3010
Course Description
Who are 'the poor' in the United States? Who are the largest recipients of federal welfare and entitlement spending? Why is there an unprecedented simultaneous increase in wealth and poverty in the United ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3010, ARTH 3010
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Gaskins, B
VISST 3175
Course Description
Global Cinema I and II together offer an overview of international film history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution ... view course details
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Wessels, C
VISST 3342
Course Description
Our present technology allows us to transmit and display information through a variety of media. To make the most of these media channels, it is important to consider the limitations and abilities of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COGST 3420, PSYCH 3420, PSYCH 6420
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Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Malott Hall 251
Instructors
Field, D
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Additional Information
Recommended prerequisite: PSYCH 2050. 4-credit option is by permission of faculty.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 3419
Course Description
The variety of visual experience in 17th-century Dutch art is legion: still life, portraiture, self-portraiture, landscape, cityscape, genre, and architectural painting. New scientific technologies and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3419
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Pincus, L
VISST 3461
Course Description
This course explores the rich and diverse history of African American filmmaking. Focusing on films written and/or directed by African Americans, this seminar traces the history of filmmaking from the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3461, ASRC 3999, PMA 3461
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Sheppard, S
VISST 3620
Course Description
The theory and practice of lighting design as a medium for artistic expression. This course explores the aesthetic and mechanical aspects of light and their application in a variety of disciplines. Emphasis ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3620
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 120
Instructors
Intemann, E
VISST 3662
Course Description
Discusses French Impressionist art as the product of nineteenth-century public life. By relating Impressionism to state culture, we trace subversive themes such as criminality, café-concert and brothel ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3760, FREN 3610
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Meixner, L
VISST 3696
Course Description
The arts of Southeast Asia are studied in their social context, because art plays a role in most of the salient occasions in life in traditional societies. Special emphasis is devoted to developments in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3850, ASIAN 3350
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
McGowan, K
VISST 3798
Course Description
Focused, practical exercises teach the student fundamental staging techniques that bring written text to theatrical life. A core objective is to increase the student's awareness of why and how certain ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3880
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts SB21
Instructors
Feldshuh, D
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4153
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 4153, FGSS 6153
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Fernandez, M
VISST 4200
Course Description
Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4100
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Dadi, I
VISST 4210
Course Description
Advanced and pre-professional Western classical dance. A continuation of and supplement to PMA 3210. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PE 1184, PE 1186, PMA 3210, PMA 4210
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
Instructors
Suber, P
VISST 4220
Course Description
Advanced and pre-professional Modern technique. A continuation of and supplement to PMA 3220. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PE 1185, PE 1187, PMA 3220, PMA 4220
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
Instructors
Chu, J
VISST 4412
Course Description
The importance of sports to American society and popular culture cannot be denied, and this seminar will study sports films' vital significance in representing the intersection of sports, history, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4412, FGSS 4412, PMA 4412
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Sheppard, S
VISST 4440
Course Description
This seminar examines issues of identity and self-fashioning in the 16th century in early modern Europe, especially Italy. The proliferation of courtesy manuals, most famous of them by Castiglione and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4440, ARTH 6440
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
VISST 4641
Course Description
Since the late 19th century, the effects of capitalism across the globe have been profoundly transformative and have intensified with the demise of the older colonial empires, the rise of nationalism and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ART 6690, ARTH 4690, ARTH 6190
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Dadi, I
VISST 4761
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4761, ARTH 6761, FREN 4761
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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Section Topic
Topic: De-mythologizing Van Gogh & Gauguin
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Meixner, L
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4945
Course Description
The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality-genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4995, ASRC 6945, COML 4945, COML 6945, ENGL 4995, FGSS 4945, FGSS 6945, LGBT 4945, LGBT 6945, VISST 6945
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited: 15 students.
VISST 6174
Course Description
Intensive consideration of the ways films generate meaning and of the ways we attribute meaning and value to films. Discussion ranges over commercial narrative, documentary, and personal film modes. Graduate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 2540, PMA 6540, VISST 2174
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Wessels, C
VISST 6945
Course Description
The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality-genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4995, ASRC 6945, COML 4945, COML 6945, ENGL 4995, FGSS 4945, FGSS 6945, LGBT 4945, LGBT 6945, VISST 4945
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited: 15 students.