Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. The Catalog/Courses of Study 2025-2026 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

VISST 1101

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DEA 1101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  2597 VISST 1101   STU 501

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Elliott, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Priority given to: Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA) majors. Cost of materials: approximately $200.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DEA 1101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4104 VISST 1101   STU 502

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Elliott, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Priority given to: Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA) majors. Cost of materials: approximately $200.

VISST 2002

This colloquium presents students with diverse approaches at the art-science interface used to interest, educate and motivate people to consider, address and solve environmental and sustainability challenges. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7227 VISST 2002   SEM 101

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Lehmann, J

      Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment preference given to: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and Arts & Sciences students planning to complete the Environment & Sustainability major. If you are interested in this course but unable to enroll, see https://tinyurl.com/escourserequest.

VISST 2012

This colloquium presents students with diverse approaches at the art-science interface used to interest, educate and motivate people to consider, address and solve environmental and sustainability challenges. ... view course details

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  •  7230 VISST 2012   LEC 001

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Lehmann, J

      Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Application required. Deadline to apply TBD. See https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_43dIVd6b6SPTBRA to apply. Upon approval, students are responsible for enrolling themselves with a permission number.

  •  7231 VISST 2012   DIS 201

    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Lehmann, J

      Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2160

In this introductory course, participants will study the economic and technological history of the television industry, with a particular emphasis on its manifestations in the United States and the United ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18270 VISST 2160   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2500

Provides a lecture survey of the history of photography over a course of two centuries. Starting with its invention in the 1830s, covers the subject topically and chronologically. During the nineteenth ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2500

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6718 VISST 2500   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6742 VISST 2500   DIS 201

    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8467 VISST 2500   DIS 202

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 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 2300

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4103 VISST 2511   DES 501

    • W
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Russo, D

  • 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 Graded

  •  8416 VISST 2645   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Howie, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8417 VISST 2645   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Howie, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8418 VISST 2645   DIS 202

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Howie, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2723

This course raises profound theoretical questions about embodiment, agency, power, and race in virtual spaces. How do digital identities in their intersection with something called race, interact with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2723COML 2723FGSS 2723

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18243 VISST 2723   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2744

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2245MUSIC 2341

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2599 VISST 2744   LEC 001

    • M
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Miller, C

    • WF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Miller, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2750

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Aesthetics of Scale

  • 19861 VISST 2750   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment preference given to: accepted Humanities Scholars Program (HSP) students. For course description, https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses.

VISST 3545

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  • 18507 VISST 3545   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Born, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3555

What are comics? While it's easy to identify a cartoon, graphic novel, or comic book, it's hard to understand the wide world of comics. As a medium, comics are part of a global tradition of visual storytelling ... view course details

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  •  9144 VISST 3555   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Schoppelrei, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Primarily for: seniors and juniors.

VISST 3566

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 19447 VISST 3566   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3696

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

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  •  8521 VISST 3696   LEC 001

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • McGowan, K

    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3798

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3880

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3432 VISST 3798   DES 501

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3812

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3812PMA 3441

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19733 VISST 3812   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4101

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4101ARTH 6101

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  3309 VISST 4101   SEM 101

    • W
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4160

The colonial period in Latin America (circa 1521-1820s) witnessed the formation of one of the most diverse societies in the world. Labor regimes, religious activities, marriage alliances, and commercial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Visual Archives of the Spanish Empire

  • 19648 VISST 4160   SEM 101

    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4705

How do queer people make family? What cultural and artistic practices sustain queer bonds? To answer these questions, this course examines queer and trans kinship narratives across a range of genres, including ... view course details

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  • 20145 VISST 4705   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4711

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  • 19654 VISST 4711   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4835

An understanding of performance as object and lens, modality and method, is integral to scholarship and research across the humanities and social sciences. Charting the advent and defining principles of ... view course details

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  •  8073 VISST 4835   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 6705

How do queer people make family? What cultural and artistic practices sustain queer bonds? To answer these questions, this course examines queer and trans kinship narratives across a range of genres, including ... view course details

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  • 19271 VISST 6705   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 6711

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  • 19649 VISST 6711   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person