Our Introductory Course

Our Interdisciplinary Introductory Course

This team-taught, interdisciplinary course will provide students with an intensive grounding in the social aspects of vision, our increasingly hyper-visual world and applied fundamentals of perceiving, representing, displaying, and analyzing visual materials. Taught with guest lecturers from across the curriculum and the city, including experts in art history, computer science, cognitive psychology, film and media studies, history, literature, optometry, and visual anthropology and sociology, this exciting, innovative course will explore the nature of vision, the production and dissemination of visual knowledge, symbolism and semiotics, visual images as signifiers of socio-culture, and the use of visual technologies in research investigations. It will explore the fundamentals of sensing, perceiving, representing, displaying, and analyzing our visual world.

The course divides into four major units:

• Cognitive Science, the Science of Light and Vision, and the Visual Experience
• Visual Knowledge Production and Dissemination
• Visual Information as Rich Socio-Cultural Texts
• Visual Media as Investigative and Research Tools

Links:

Visual Studies in the UH Catalog

Visual Studies Course Descriptions

Visual Studies Approved Course List for the minor

Contact us at VisualStudies@uh.edu