Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.
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- Schedule of Classes - April 13, 2023 2:00PM EDT
- Course Catalog - April 12, 2023 7:14PM EDT
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
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Elliott, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited. Priority given to DEA majors. Cost of materials: approx. $200.
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
- TR M Van Rensselaer Hall 4101
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Elliott, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Bardsley, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 2511
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 2300, PMA 3300, PMA 4300
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts SB10
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Yeung-Tieu, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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 2341
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Lincoln Hall B24
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Miller, C
- WF Lincoln Hall 140
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Miller, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3261, PMA 3550, PMA 6550
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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
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Haenni, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Suber, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 3260
Course Description
How have movements for sexual liberation used performance as a means of self-expression and strategies for social justice? How have theatrical stages served as sites of queer sociality and crucibles of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3250, FGSS 6755, LGBT 3250, LGBT 6755, PMA 3755, PMA 6755
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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
- M Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Warner, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 3565
Course Description
This course surveys the artistic and architectural traditions of Latin America during the period of Spanish colonial rule (ca. 1520s-1820s). It will center primarily on visual cultures of the viceroyalties ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3565, ARTH 6563, LATA 3565
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 3650
Course Description
In this course, we will examine the role of electronic and digital technologies in the arts of the late 20th and 21st centuries with emphasis on Europe and North America. Beginning with the cybernetically ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3650, ARTH 6653, INFO 3660, STS 3650
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
VISST 3696
Course Description
The arts of Southeast Asia are studied in their social context, since in traditional societies creative processes are often mapped on the sequence of events that compose human lives. We will be looking ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3850, ARTH 6850, ASIAN 3350, MEDVL 3850, MEDVL 6850
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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
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McGowan, K
- W Johnson Museum 2L41 lecture rm
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 3707
Course Description
Popular consciousness of The Thousand and One Nights tends to focus on the female protagonist's inexhaustible oratory talents. Less frequently marveled at is the way in which the text's frame story and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3708, FGSS 3708, NES 3707, NES 6706, SHUM 3707
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 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
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
What does the representation of sexual encounter in the Arabian Nights ('Alf layla-wa layla) have to do with a politics of race and gender? This course explores the millenia-long history of mediations and translations of this ancient Perso-Arabic text across literature, film, and popular culture, in the Middle East and in Europe. We will pay attention to the transmission of phobic tropes about female sexuality and miscegenation, or "interracial" sex as they manifest in various versions of 1001 Nights across time and space.
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts SB21
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Feldshuh, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4153
Course Description
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 4153, FGSS 6153
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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: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4546
Course Description
Examines how collaboration among stage directors, designers, and actors leads to differing interpretations of plays. The course focuses on how the texts themselves are blueprints for productions with particular ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4210, PMA 4675
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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
- M Judith Eissner Pavillion 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Levitt, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4556
Course Description
Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4556, ARTH 4556, ARTH 6556, ENGL 4556, ENGL 6565, LSP 4556, LSP 6565
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Johnson Museum 2B07 study glry
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4673
Course Description
Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4673, AAS 6673, ARTH 4673, ARTH 6673, ASIAN 4467, ASIAN 6667, FGSS 4673, FGSS 6673, SHUM 4673, SHUM 6673, VISST 6673
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Lee, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 6673
Course Description
Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4673, AAS 6673, ARTH 4673, ARTH 6673, ASIAN 4467, ASIAN 6667, FGSS 4673, FGSS 6673, SHUM 4673, SHUM 6673, VISST 4673
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Lee, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person