AMST 2000

Introduction to Visual Studies

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This course provides an introduction to modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. It examines all aspects of culture that communicate through visual means, including 20th-century visual technologies—photography, cinema, video, etc., and their historical corollaries. The production and consumption of images, objects, and events is studied in diverse cultures. Students develop the critical skills necessary to appreciate how the approaches that define visual studies complicate traditional models of defining and analyzing art objects.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (LA-AS, ALC-AS, ETM-AS)
Satisfies Requirement Requirement for Visual Studies minor.

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