Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences

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VISST 1101
Visual Literacy and Design Studio

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

  • 3.5 Credits Graded

  • 12700 VISST 1101   STU 501

  •  
    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • 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

  • 3.5 Credits Graded

  • 12701 VISST 1101   STU 502

  •  
    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Elliott, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Priority given to: Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA) majors. Cost of materials: approximately $200.

VISST 2002
Environment and Sustainability Colloquium

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

  •  3900 VISST 2002   SEM 101

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • 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
Discussions of Environment and Sustainability

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

  •  4042 VISST 2012   LEC 001

    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • 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.

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  •  4043 VISST 2012   DIS 201

    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Lehmann, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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VISST 2300
American Cinema

From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present moment, movies - and in particular Hollywood - have profoundly influenced the ways in which people see, think and talk about the world. Focusing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2760, ENGL 2761, PMA 2560

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8291 VISST 2300   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Haenni, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8292 VISST 2300   DIS 201

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8293 VISST 2300   DIS 202

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2500
Introduction to the History of Photography

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

  •  7193 VISST 2500   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

  •  7194 VISST 2500   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  7195 VISST 2500   DIS 202

    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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VISST 2511
Dance Composition

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

  •  9586 VISST 2511   DES 501

  •  
    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Russo, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2645
Introduction to Early Modern Art: Cosmopolitanism and Empire

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

  •  7117 VISST 2645   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Howie, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7118 VISST 2645   DIS 201

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Howie, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7119 VISST 2645   DIS 202

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Howie, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2744
Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures

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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Syllabi: none

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8950 VISST 2744   LEC 001

  •  
    • MWF
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Miller, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2750
Introduction to Humanities

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

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 2750, CLASS 2750, SHUM 2750

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: The Art of Reading

  •  9664 VISST 2750   SEM 102

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • 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 3175
Global Cinema and Media

Global Cinema and Media offers a survey of international film and media 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 3261, PMA 3550

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9579 VISST 3175   LEC 001

  •  
    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Sheppard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9580 VISST 3175   LAB 401

  •  
    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Sheppard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3651
Women in New Media Art

The work of women artists has been central to the development of new media art. These rich and varied practices include installation, virtual reality environments, net art, digital video, networked performance, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3651, FGSS 3655, SHUM 3651

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  7232 VISST 3651   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3696
The Arts of Southeast Asia

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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Syllabi: none

  •  7121 VISST 3696   LEC 001

  •  
    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • McGowan, K

    • R
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3798
Fundamentals of Directing I

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

  •  9560 VISST 3798   DES 501

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Feldshuh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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VISST 4101
Proseminar: Introduction to Methods

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 4101, ARTH 6101

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  7125 VISST 4101   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4153
Topics in Feminist Media Arts

Fall 2024 Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts. While feminist art in new media address traditional feminist concerns such as the female body, identity, representation, feminist history, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  7220 VISST 4153   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4546
Shakespeare in (Con)text

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4210, PMA 4675

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9562 VISST 4546   SEM 101

    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Levitt, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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VISST 4835
Performance Studies: Theories and Methods

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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Syllabi: none

  •  9599 VISST 4835   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Balance, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4854
Water: Art and Politics in Southeast Asia

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Syllabi: none

  •  7236 VISST 4854   SEM 101

  •  
    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 6500
Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents

After having been reduced to a mere ideological formation of bourgeois origin, aesthetics has recently made a strong comeback in the field of theory. This course probes the reasons for this historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18537 VISST 6500   SEM 101

  •  
    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Gilgen, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 6854
Water: Art and Politics in Southeast Asia

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  •  7239 VISST 6854   SEM 101

    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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