Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 22, 2015 4:42PM EDT
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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.
VISST 2000
Course Description
Provides a broad introduction of modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. The question of "how we see" is ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, COML 2000
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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 G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Finley, C
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 2190
Course Description
Borrowing its title from a formulation of Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, and beginning from the "forays of demoralization" instigated by the Dadas, who bequeathed to surrealism the precious ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 2019, COML 2200
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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 Lincoln Hall 149
Instructors
Maxwell, B
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Gaskins, B
VISST 3115
Course Description
The course will offer an overview of video art, alternative documentary video, and digital installation and networked art. It will analyze four phases of video and new media: (1) the development of video ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3115, ENGL 3115, PMA 3515
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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
- M A D White House 201
Instructors
Murray, T
VISST 3176
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
Villarejo, A
VISST 3227
Course Description
This course maintains a critical focus on the role of the moving body in the history of dance offering comparisons in theatre, film and other forms of media and live performance. Moving from the 16th century ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3227
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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 124
Instructors
Suber, P
VISST 3270
Course Description
Ancient Byzantion, rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great, raised by his successors to be the capital of a "Byzantine" empire, object of desire for travelers and crusaders, crowning ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 3370, ARTH 3270, CLASS 3770, MEDVL 3270, NES 3270, RELST 3270
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Student Option(OPI))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Anderson, B
VISST 3519
Course Description
Artistic values, parameters, and concerns of music (sound design), dance, and lighting design are compared and contrasted, and the combination of design elements is analyzed in contemporary dance. Includes ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3690
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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
- TR Lincoln Hall 140
Instructors
Intemann, E
VISST 3560
Course Description
Computers are powerful tools for working, playing, thinking, and living. Laptops, PDAs, webcams, cell phones, and iPods are not just devices, they also provide narratives, metaphors, and ways of seeing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3061, COMM 3560, INFO 3561, STS 3561
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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 132-HEC Aud
Instructors
Ziewitz, M
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
VISST 3581
Course Description
What role should imaginative arts play in debates about transnational migration, one of the principal factors re-shaping community and communication today? Focusing on literature and film from the late ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3581, COML 3580, GERST 3581, PMA 3481
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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 Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Adelson, L
Haenni, S
VISST 3740
Course Description
Art and everyday life in nineteenth and early-twentieth century America with emphasis on Anglo-European traditions. Considers democratic cultures and identities through topical units: the Peale family ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3740, ARTH 3740
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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 4160
Course Description
Topic for spring 2015: Art and Identity in Colonial Latin America view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4160, ARTH 6160, LATA 4160, LATA 6160
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Section Topic
Topic: Art and Identity in Colonial Latin America
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Cohen Suarez, A
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
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
Instructors
Suber, P
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Additional Information
Course fee of $40.
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
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
Instructors
Chu, J
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Additional Information
Course fee of $40.
VISST 4411
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4784, FGSS 4411, PMA 4411
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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 Judith Eisner Pavillion 201
Instructors
Fisher, A
VISST 4454
Course Description
This course will take an interdisciplinary, dynamic and experimental approach to study the Seoul city within the larger context of spatial discourses in history, urban culture, literature and visual media. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4454
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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
- T Rockefeller Hall 378
Instructors
Choi, Y
VISST 4507
Course Description
Topic for spring 2015: The Art Super Star and the Global Art Economy view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4507, ARTH 6507
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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
- T Johnson Museum Of Art 2L34
Instructors
Finley, C
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4563
Course Description
Concentrates on designing lighting for different genres of performance in various venues. Emphasis is placed on developing both the visual sophistication and the technical artistry of the lighting designer. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 4620
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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 120
Instructors
Intemann, E
VISST 4580
Course Description
This seminar format course surveys the particular topic — choreography — with special attention to theories and practices of race and anti-racism. It introduces dance-based critical thinking, critical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4080, AMST 4080, LSP 4080, PMA 4080
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Section Topic
Topic: Choreographies of Race
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Judith Eisner Pavillion 201
Instructors
Perillo, J
VISST 4605
Course Description
This interdisciplinary seminar capitalizes on the extraordinary loan of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings from a private collection to the Johnson Museum, and an ongoing Mellon Foundation initiative ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4605, ARTH 6605
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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 Johnson Museum Of Art 2L34
Instructors
Johnson, C
Pincus, L
Weislogel, A
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4761
Course Description
Topic for spring 2015: Mass Culture in the Great Depression. This seminar explores public art and popular entertainments as the means for everyday people to politically engage or escape the Great Depression ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4306, ARTH 4761
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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Section Topic
Topic: Mass Culture & the Great Depression
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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 4857
Course Description
It is a fundamental part of human activity to dress or cover one's body and environment. While the symbolic significance of such clothing has long been recognized, the activity of producing fabric itself ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4856, ARTH 6856
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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
- W Johnson Museum Of Art 2L34
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4956
Course Description
"Please Do Not Touch" is one of the signs we are most accustomed to seeing in art museums, yet the very need to make this request demonstrates how objects often invite, seek, even demand that we transgress ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4956, CLASS 4602, SHUM 4997
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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
- T A D White House 201
Instructors
Platt, V
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