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Our Introductory Course

Our Interdisciplinary Introductory Course

Bangkok

Curious Man, Bangkok
©2004 Tracy Xavia Karner

This team-taught, interdisciplinary course will provide students with an intensive grounding in the fundamentals of perceiving, representing, displaying, and analyzing visual materials. Taught by experts in art history, film and media studies, history, literature, optometry, and visual anthropology and sociology, this exciting, innovative course will explore the intersection of art, culture, and science, including the nature of vision, the philosophy of the visual arts, symbolism and semiotics, visual images as signifiers of culture, and the use of visual technologies as research tools.

Please note -- For Spring 2008, the Visual Studies courses can be temporarily found under Anthropology while we are getting all the paperwork completed for our own VS listings. Taking Anthropology 4394: Introduction to Visual Studies will count as VS 1300 for the purposes of the minor in Visual Studies.

In peoplesoft, there are a number of course sections listed under ANTH 4394. Introduction to Visual Studies is the last option. You may have to select "View All Sections" to be able to see this option.

This interdisciplinary course will explore the intersection of art, culture, and science. We will focus on aspects of visual culture with guest lecturers from across the curriculum and the city, including experts in art history, film and media studies, history, literature, optometry, visual anthropology and visual sociology. This class will examine the nature of vision, the philosophy of the visual arts, symbolism and semiotics, visual images as signifiers of culture, and the use of visual technologies as research tools. It will explore the fundamentals of sensing, perceiving, representing, displaying, and analyzing visual objects.

The course divides into four major units: