Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences

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VISST 2000

This course provides an introduction to modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. It examines all aspects ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000ARTH 2000COML 2000

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  3529 VISST 2000   LEC 001

  •  5656 VISST 2000   DIS 201

    • R Uris Hall G28
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Moisey, A

  •  5657 VISST 2000   DIS 202

    • R Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Moisey, A

  •  5658 VISST 2000   DIS 203

  •  5659 VISST 2000   DIS 204

    • F Morrill Hall 110
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Moisey, A

  •  5660 VISST 2000   DIS 205

  •  5661 VISST 2000   DIS 206

    • R Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Moisey, A

  •  6009 VISST 2000   DIS 207

  •  6010 VISST 2000   DIS 208

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

  • 19750 VISST 2511   DES 501

VISST 2645

This course offers an introduction to the diverse global encounters and exchanges that shaped early modern European art and material culture, c.1400-1650. The course will be structured around nine European ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2400

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 18602 VISST 2645   LEC 001

  • 18603 VISST 2645   DIS 201

VISST 2790

What does it mean to call a film is "Jewish"? Does it have to represent Jewish life? Does it have to feature characters identifiable as Jews? If artists who identify as Jews—actors, directors, screenwriters, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2790JWST 2790PMA 2490

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6717 VISST 2790   LEC 001

    • TR White Hall 110
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Shapiro, E

VISST 2805

Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern "globalized" world. The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2805ASIAN 2285SHUM 2805

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  6873 VISST 2805   LEC 001

  • 18643 VISST 2805   DIS 201

    • F White Hall 110
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

VISST 3176

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 3262PMA 3551PMA 6551

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4901 VISST 3176   LEC 001

  • 18913 VISST 3176   LAB 401

VISST 3463

This course considers issues, approaches, and complexities in the contemporary television landscape. As television has changed drastically over the past fifteen years, this course provides students with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3463PMA 3463

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17644 VISST 3463   SEM 101

VISST 3545

The medieval past often returns in modern media with a critical twist. This course explores the imagination of the Middle Ages in modern films, video games, and other popular media. It introduces classic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19586 VISST 3545   SEM 101

    • MW Uris Library 311
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Born, E

VISST 3758

Formally titled "technosomakinesics," this class works to expand the specific aesthetics related to dance as embodied performance. Included in the process is the analysis of built environments that both ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3350PMA 4350VISST 4758

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16620 VISST 3758   DES 501

  • Rotational in person attendance to be determined by instructor.

VISST 4151

From the 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They have designed habitats, plants, body organs, imaged ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)

  • 18590 VISST 4151   SEM 101

VISST 4166

This seminar immerses students in the diverse painting traditions of colonial Latin America (1500s-1800s), with a focus on artistic practice in Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and the Hispanophone Caribbean. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19809 VISST 4166   SEM 101

VISST 4260

The act of adaptation invokes a response to source material from a variety of inspiration(s) - images, poems, stories, iconic moments, people, legends, events, histories. Artist/creators work to transcend ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4660

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20071 VISST 4260   SEM 101

VISST 4641

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4690ARTH 6190

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18668 VISST 4641   SEM 101

VISST 4758

Continuation of PMA 3350. PMA 4350 expands on principles explored in PMA 3350 using more complex and interactive software and spatialities. Students must create work utilizing projections and built objects ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3350PMA 4350VISST 3758

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16622 VISST 4758   DES 501

VISST 4793

A continuation of PMA 3570, Introduction to Visual Storytelling, students will dive deeper into creating story driven short form narratives. Students will have the opportunity to develop and produce a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4585

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6557 VISST 4793   STU 501

VISST 4855

This seminar explores how patterned cloths serve as a symbolic medium, functioning on multiple levels of understanding and communication. As spun, dyed, and woven threads of consequence, textiles can be ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18702 VISST 4855   SEM 101

    • W Sibley Hall 211
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • McGowan, K

VISST 6151

Topic - Biological Art (Bio Art): From the late 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They have designed ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)

  • 18691 VISST 6151   SEM 101

VISST 6166

This seminar immerses students in the diverse painting traditions of colonial Latin America (1500s-1800s), with a focus on artistic practice in Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and the Hispanophone Caribbean. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19810 VISST 6166   SEM 101

VISST 6855

This seminar explores how patterned cloths serve as a symbolic medium, functioning on multiple levels of understanding and communication. As spun, dyed, and woven threads of consequence, textiles can be ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18698 VISST 6855   SEM 101

    • W Sibley Hall 211
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • McGowan, K