Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 15, 2016 6:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 9, 2016 6:15PM EDT
Classes
VISST 2000
Course Description
This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies. Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, COML 2000
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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 G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Moisey, A
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, PMA 6540, VISST 6174
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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
Wessels, C
VISST 2190
Course Description
Borrowing its title from a formulation of Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, and beginning from the "forays of demoralization" instigated by the Dadas, who bequeathed to surrealism the precious ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 2019, COML 2200, ROMS 2200
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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
- MWF Stimson Hall 206
Instructors
Maxwell, B
VISST 2744
Course Description
An introduction to Indonesia through its arts. The course combines hands-on instruction in the performance of gamelan music and the academic study of a broader range of Indonesian music in its sociocultural ... 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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MF Lincoln Hall B24
Instructors
Miller, C
- W Lincoln Hall 149
Instructors
VISST 3010
Course Description
Who are 'the poor' in the United States? Who are the largest recipients of federal welfare and entitlement spending? Why is there an unprecedented simultaneous increase in wealth and poverty in the United ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3010, ARTH 3010
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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
- TR Olive Tjaden Hall 407
Instructors
Gaskins, B
VISST 3176
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
Casad, M
VISST 3443
Course Description
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael transformed the art of their time. Leonardo was an extraordinary thinker, scientist, and engineer as well as artist. Michelangelo invented grandiose projects for ambitious ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3440
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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 White Hall 110
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
VISST 3522
Course Description
This course examines the origins, evolution, and contemporary resonance of film noir. Beginning with a look at expressionist and crime films of Weimar Germany, we will then examine a body of classic films ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 3522, PMA 3522
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Dobryden, P
VISST 3560
Course Description
Computers are powerful tools for working, playing, thinking, and living. Laptops, PDAs, webcams, cell phones, and iPods are not just devices, they also provide narratives, metaphors, and ways of seeing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3061, COMM 3560, INFO 3561, STS 3561
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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 Hollister Hall 110
Instructors
Ziewitz, M
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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 G22
Instructors
Dadi, I
VISST 3758
Course Description
Formally titled "technosomakinesics," this class works to expand the specific aesthetics related to dance as embodied performance. Included in the process is the analysis of built environments that both ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3350, PMA 4350, VISST 4758
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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
Instructors
Suber, P
VISST 3765
Course Description
This course traces the exchanges between spectacular entertainments and avant-garde art that shaped late nineteenth-century European visual culture, and gave rise to collective spectatorship transgressing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3765, FREN 3765
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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 G22
Instructors
Meixner, L
VISST 4210
Course Description
Advanced and pre-professional Western classical dance. A continuation of and supplement to PMA 3210. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PE 1184, PE 1186, PMA 3210, PMA 4210
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
Instructors
Suber, P
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Additional Information
Course fee of $40.
VISST 4220
Course Description
Advanced and pre-professional Modern technique. A continuation of and supplement to PMA 3220. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PE 1185, PE 1187, PMA 3220, PMA 4220
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
Instructors
Chu, J
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Additional Information
Course fee of $40.
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
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Gold, D
VISST 4441
Course Description
This course will examine intersections of film history and the environment. Using German cinema as a case study, we will look at how moving image media have negotiated ecological issues from the early ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 4440, GERST 6440, PMA 4440
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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 Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Dobryden, P
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Additional Information
Weekly film screening, TBA.
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
- W Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
Instructors
Levitt, B
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4563
Course Description
Concentrates on designing lighting for different genres of performance in various venues. Emphasis is placed on developing both the visual sophistication and the technical artistry of the lighting designer. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 4620
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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 120
Instructors
Intemann, E
VISST 4577
Course Description
The aim of this course is to present a map of theories and artistic strategies in order to better understand the validity of the anachronism and obsolescence in today's culture. During recent years, artists ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4577, COML 4006, SHUM 4507
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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 A D White House 110
Instructors
Hernandez Navarro, M
VISST 4604
Course Description
This course evaluates the immense popularity of 17th-century Dutch artists Rembrandt and Vermeer. Together these two great exponents of the Golden Age span three-quarters of their century, from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4604, ARTH 6604
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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 144
Instructors
Pincus, L
VISST 4758
Course Description
Continuation of PMA 3350. PMA 4350 expands on principles explored in PMA 3350 using more complex and interactive software and spatialities. Students must create work utilizing projections and built objects ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 3350, PMA 4350, VISST 3758
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts SB10
Instructors
Suber, P
VISST 4761
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4306, AMST 6761, ARTH 4761, ARTH 6761
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Mass Culture in the Great Depression
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Meixner, L
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4770
Course Description
Intensive course in 16mm filmmaking and digital video in which each student develops a significant documentary or experimental project both critically and creatively. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 4570, PMA 4585, VISST 4793
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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 SB12
Instructors
Winter, S
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4793
Course Description
Intensive filmmaking/media production course in which students focus on developing and producing an accomplished creative project over the semester (16mm, HD, sound art, and multi-media are all options). ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 4570, PMA 4585, VISST 4770
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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 SB12
Instructors
Winter, S
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4835
Course Description
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
VISST 6174
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, documentary, and personal film modes. Graduate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 2540, PMA 6540, VISST 2174
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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
Wessels, C