Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

VISST 1101

This course 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 ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DEA 1101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3724 VISST 1101   STU 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited. Priority given to DEA majors. Cost of materials: approx. $200.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DEA 1101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6365 VISST 1101   STU 502

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited. Priority given to DEA majors. Cost of materials: approx. $200.

VISST 2002

This colloquium presents students with diverse approaches at the art-science interface used to interest, educate and motivate people to consider, address and solve environmental and sustainability challenges. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENVS 2000ENVS 2010VISST 2012

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  • 19286 VISST 2002   SEM 101

    • F Statler Hall 265
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lehmann, J

      Presutti, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2012

This colloquium presents students with diverse approaches at the art-science interface used to interest, educate and motivate people to consider, address and solve environmental and sustainability challenges. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ENVS 2000ENVS 2010VISST 2002

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 19289 VISST 2012   LEC 001

    • F Statler Hall 265
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lehmann, J

      Presutti, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This class is BY APPLICATION, due August 4, 2023. Accepted students will enroll by permission code during the Add Period in August. Application link: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_43dIVd6b6SPTBRA

  • 19290 VISST 2012   DIS 201

    • R Kennedy Hall 103
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lehmann, J

      Presutti, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2160

In this introductory course, participants will study the economic and technological history of the television industry, with a particular emphasis on its manifestations in the United States and the United ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18313 VISST 2160   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18314 VISST 2160   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  • 18315 VISST 2160   LEC 002

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2500

Provides a lecture survey of the history of photography over a course of two centuries. Starting with its invention in the 1830s, covers the subject topically and chronologically. During the nineteenth ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2500

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17758 VISST 2500   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17822 VISST 2500   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2511

Students compose and present short studies that are discussed and reworked. Problems are defined and explored through class improvisations. Informal showing at end of semester. Includes informal showing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 2300PMA 3300PMA 4300

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6364 VISST 2511   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2550

This course is designed to introduce students to Latin American art from the pre-Columbian period to the present.  It will cover the arts of ancient civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Moche, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2555ARTH 2550LATA 2050SHUM 2550

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17519 VISST 2550   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17657 VISST 2550   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2744

This course combines hands-on instruction in gamelan, Indonesia's most prominent form of traditional music, and the academic study of the broader range of music found in contemporary Indonesia, including ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2245MUSIC 2341

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3727 VISST 2744   LEC 001

    • M Lincoln Hall B24
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Miller, C

    • WF Lincoln Hall 149
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Miller, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3175

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: COML 3261PMA 3550PMA 6550

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4832 VISST 3175   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18237 VISST 3175   LAB 401

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3798

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3880

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5169 VISST 3798   DES 501

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4101

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4101ARTH 6101

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5006 VISST 4101   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4153

Topic: Cyberfeminism in the Visual Arts; What was/is cyberfeminism? In this seminar, we will investigate the emergence of cyberfeminism in theory and art in the context of the accelerated technological ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Cyberfeminism in the Visual Arts

  • 17707 VISST 4153   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4684

This interdisciplinary seminar brings together critical theory and global visual arts to analyze the problem of work over the long twentieth century. By focusing on the labor of visual artists and their ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18895 VISST 4684   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 6684

This interdisciplinary seminar brings together critical theory and global visual arts to analyze the problem of work over the long twentieth century. By focusing on the labor of visual artists and their ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18900 VISST 6684   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person