Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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

  •  3035 VISST 2000   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5005 VISST 2000   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5006 VISST 2000   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5007 VISST 2000   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5008 VISST 2000   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5009 VISST 2000   DIS 205

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5010 VISST 2000   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5329 VISST 2000   DIS 207

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5330 VISST 2000   DIS 208

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • 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

  • 11017 VISST 2511   DES 501

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Prince, O

      Suber, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  • 10315 VISST 2645   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Howie, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10316 VISST 2645   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  5790 VISST 2790   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Shapiro, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  5818 VISST 2805   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10349 VISST 2805   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3176

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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

  •  4351 VISST 3176   LEC 001

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Warner, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10550 VISST 3176   LAB 401

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Warner, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  9560 VISST 3463   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Sheppard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3545

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Syllabi: none
  • 10888 VISST 3545   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Born, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3758

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8746 VISST 3758   DES 501

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Prince, O

      Suber, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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)

  • 10303 VISST 4151   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  • 11060 VISST 4166   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

      Weislogel, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4260

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 11221 VISST 4260   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Milles, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  • 10372 VISST 4641   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4758

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8748 VISST 4758   DES 501

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Prince, O

      Suber, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  5664 VISST 4793   STU 501

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Kim, D

      Palmer, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  • 10401 VISST 4855   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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)

  • 10390 VISST 6151   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  • 11061 VISST 6166   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

      Weislogel, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  • 10397 VISST 6855   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person