Visual Studies (VISST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

VISST 2000

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000ARTH 2000COML 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3035 VISST 2000   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5005 VISST 2000   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5006 VISST 2000   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5007 VISST 2000   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5008 VISST 2000   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5009 VISST 2000   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5010 VISST 2000   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5329 VISST 2000   DIS 207

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5330 VISST 2000   DIS 208

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 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

  • 11017 VISST 2511   DES 501

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Russo, D

  • 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: After Images: From Photography to AI

  • 19987 VISST 2750   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lorca Fuentealba, P

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

VISST 2790

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2790JWST 2790PMA 2490

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5790 VISST 2790   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Shapiro, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2805

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2805ASIAN 2285SHUM 2805

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  5818 VISST 2805   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10349 VISST 2805   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18854 VISST 2805   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 2812

An introduction to the history and theory of writing systems from cuneiform to the alphabet, historical and new writing media, and the complex relationship of writing technologies to human language and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 11601 VISST 2812   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Kirk, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This is part of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).

VISST 3175

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.  Combined with: COML 3261PMA 3550

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 19450 VISST 3175   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Sheppard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3342

Our present technology allows us to transmit and display information through a variety of media. To make the most of these media channels, it is important to consider the limitations and abilities of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COGST 3420PSYCH 3420

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18909 VISST 3342   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Field, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3600

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3600ARTH 6600

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 19168 VISST 3600   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 3758

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3350

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18058 VISST 3758   DES 501

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Prince, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4155

Topic: Latin American Moderinsims and Technology. The involvement of Latin American artists with modern media technologies dates at least to the late nineteenth century and has especially flourished in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18827 VISST 4155   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4556

Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details

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  • 18879 VISST 4556   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 4855

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 10401 VISST 4855   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 6155

Topic: Latin American Modernisms and Technology. The involvement of Latin American artists with modern media technologies dates at least to the late nineteenth century and has especially flourished in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18830 VISST 6155   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 6556

Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18883 VISST 6556   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

VISST 6855

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 10397 VISST 6855   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person