Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 31, 2019 7:14PM EST
- Course Catalog - January 31, 2019 7:15PM EST
Classes
VISST 1101
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DEA 1101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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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. 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
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Fitzpatrick, V
VISST 2502
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 2505, FGSS 2501, PMA 2501
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Sheppard, S
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- M Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
Instructors
Chu, J
Suber, P
VISST 2645
Course Description
This course examines some of the major works of European artists from 1400 to 1750, a period with huge changes in religion, political systems, and knowledge of the world. We learn chronological and geographical ... 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(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
VISST 2744
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2245, MUSIC 1341
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MF Lincoln Hall B24
Instructors
Miller, C
- W Lincoln Hall 149
Instructors
VISST 2805
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 2805, ASIAN 2285
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
McGowan, K
Pan, A
- R Johnson Museum 2L41 lecture rm
Instructors
McGowan, K
Pan, A
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Fitzpatrick, V
Villarejo, A
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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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.
Department Consent Required (Add)
VISST 3419
Course Description
The variety of visual experience in 17th-century Dutch art is legion: still life, portraiture and self-portraiture, landscape and cityscape, architectural painting and scenes of everyday life, all in paint ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3419
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Pincus, L
VISST 3463
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3463, PMA 3463
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Sheppard, S
VISST 3505
Course Description
Blaxploitation films of the 1970s are remembered for their gigantic Afros, enormous guns, slammin' soundtracks, sex, drugs, nudity, and violence. Never before or since have so many African American performers ... view course details
VISST 3520
Course Description
Light is the fundamental building block of all visual media. Whether a photographer, filmmaker, videographer, YouTube poster, or other maker of images, the strategic use of light can tell your story better, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3520
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
Instructors
Intemann, E
VISST 3566
Course Description
This course introduces students to the arts of the ancient Americas from circa 2000 BC to the Spanish invasions of the 15th and 16th centuries. The inhabitants of the Americas produced outstanding works ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 3566, ARTH 3566, ARTH 6566, LATA 3566, LSP 3566
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
VISST 3600
Course Description
This course discusses new art practices since the 1960s. Although numerous artistic experiments took place during the first half of the twentieth century, it was with the declining importance of modernist ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3600
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Dadi, I
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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 120
Instructors
Intemann, E
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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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 4101
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 4101, ARTH 6101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Dadi, I
VISST 4151
Course Description
Topic for Fall 2018: 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 ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4151, ARTH 6151, STS 4511, STS 6511, VISST 6151
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Douglas, A
Fernandez, M
VISST 4162
Course Description
This course examines the art and architecture of the Inca Empire (ca. 1438-1532), the largest indigenous empire in the Americas prior to the Spanish conquest. The first half of the course explores architecture, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4162, ARKEO 6162, ARTH 4162, ARTH 6162, LATA 4162, LATA 6162
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
VISST 4436
Course Description
The course will treat various aspects of Indian film, with focal topics to vary from year to year. These topics will include religion in Indian film, Indian art films, and the golden age of Indian film. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4436, PMA 4536
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Gold, D
VISST 4854
Course Description
This seminar will focus on the significance of water –economic, religious, political, social –and its role in the art and architecture of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Cambodia ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4854, ARTH 6854, ASIAN 4499, ASIAN 6699, VISST 6854
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Johnson Museum 2L41 lecture rm
Instructors
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 6151
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4151, ARTH 6151, STS 4511, STS 6511, VISST 4151
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Douglas, A
Fernandez, M
VISST 6308
Course Description
Expanded Practice Seminars bring students and faculty in the humanities and the design disciplines together around a common and pressing urban issue such as the cultural and material practices induced ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6408, ARCH 6509, ASIAN 6630, COML 6308, SHUM 6308
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Mapping Global Spatio-politics Through China
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Sibley Hall 261B
Instructors
Bachner, A
Lok, L
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 6854
Course Description
This seminar will focus on the significance of water –economic, religious, political, social –and its role in the art and architecture of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Cambodia ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4854, ARTH 6854, ASIAN 4499, ASIAN 6699, VISST 4854
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Johnson Museum 2L41 lecture rm
Instructors
McGowan, K