Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
VISST 2000
Course Description
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 ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, COML 2000
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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 G76-Lewis
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall G28
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Uris Hall G26
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Rockefeller Hall 128
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Morrill Hall 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- R Rockefeller Hall 132
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- R Uris Hall 498
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Rockefeller Hall B16
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 127
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moisey, A
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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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Meeting Pattern
- T Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Prince, O
Suber, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 2645
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2400
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Howie, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- R Sibley Hall 208
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 2790
Course Description
What does it mean to call a film is "Jewish"? Does it have to represent Jewish life? Does it have to feature characters identifiable as Jews? If artists who identify as Jews—actors, directors, screenwriters, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2790, JWST 2790, PMA 2490
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Shapiro, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 2805
Course Description
Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern "globalized" world. The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2805, ASIAN 2285, SHUM 2805
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
McGowan, K
Pan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
McGowan, K
Pan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: COML 3262, PMA 3551, PMA 6551
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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 B21
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Warner, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- W Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Warner, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 3463
Course Description
This course considers issues, approaches, and complexities in the contemporary television landscape. As television has changed drastically over the past fifteen years, this course provides students with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3463, PMA 3463
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Sheppard, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 3545
Course Description
The medieval past often returns in modern media with a critical twist. This course explores the imagination of the Middle Ages in modern films, video games, and other popular media. It introduces classic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3113, GERST 3545, MEDVL 3545, PMA 3545
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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 Uris Library 311
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Born, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
- F Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Prince, O
Suber, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Rotational in person attendance to be determined by instructor.
VISST 4151
Course Description
From the 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They have designed habitats, plants, body organs, imaged ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4151, ARTH 6151, STS 4511, STS 6511, VISST 6151
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 144
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4166
Course Description
This seminar immerses students in the diverse painting traditions of colonial Latin America (1500s-1800s), with a focus on artistic practice in Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and the Hispanophone Caribbean. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4166, ARKEO 7166, ARTH 4166, ARTH 6166, LATA 4166, LATA 6166, VISST 6166
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
Weislogel, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4260
Course Description
The act of adaptation invokes a response to source material from a variety of inspiration(s) - images, poems, stories, iconic moments, people, legends, events, histories. Artist/creators work to transcend ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 4660
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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 Judith Eissner Pavillion 201
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Milles, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4641
Course Description
Since the late 19th century, the effects of capitalism across the globe have been profoundly transformative and have intensified with the demise of the older colonial empires, the rise of nationalism and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4690, ARTH 6190
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Dadi, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4758
Course Description
Continuation of PMA 3350. PMA 4350 expands on principles explored in PMA 3350Â 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
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 320
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Prince, O
Suber, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 4793
Course Description
A continuation of PMA 3570, Introduction to Visual Storytelling, students will dive deeper into creating story driven short form narratives. Students will have the opportunity to develop and produce a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 4585
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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 SB20
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Kim, D
Palmer, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 4855
Course Description
This seminar explores how patterned cloths serve as a symbolic medium, functioning on multiple levels of understanding and communication. As spun, dyed, and woven threads of consequence, textiles can be ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4855, ARTH 6855, ASIAN 4487, ASIAN 6644, VISST 6855
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Sibley Hall 211
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
VISST 6151
Course Description
Topic - Biological Art (Bio Art): From the late 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They have designed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4151, ARTH 6151, STS 4511, STS 6511, VISST 4151
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 144
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 6166
Course Description
This seminar immerses students in the diverse painting traditions of colonial Latin America (1500s-1800s), with a focus on artistic practice in Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and the Hispanophone Caribbean. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4166, ARKEO 7166, ARTH 4166, ARTH 6166, LATA 4166, LATA 6166, VISST 4166
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
Weislogel, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
VISST 6855
Course Description
This seminar explores how patterned cloths serve as a symbolic medium, functioning on multiple levels of understanding and communication. As spun, dyed, and woven threads of consequence, textiles can be ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4855, ARTH 6855, ASIAN 4487, ASIAN 6644, VISST 4855
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Sibley Hall 211
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)