{"id":149,"date":"2023-05-26T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T23:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/vanessaschwartz\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:00:06","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/vanessaschwartz\/courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                                    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--cta-cards-collection \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--cta-cards-collection\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Graduate Courses\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"cards-container\">\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2025\/08\/VISS501Fall2025_FinalSyllabus.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates <\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2025<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2025\/08\/VISS-599-Syllabus.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>VISS 599: Images Out of Time: Berlin\u2019s Museum Island (co-taught with Megan Luke)<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Summer 2025<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/11\/VISS501Fall2023_FINAL.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates <\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2023<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/06\/Syllabus_VISS-599-iotSummer23_FINAL.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>VISS 599: Images Out of Time (co-taught with W.J.T. Mitchell)<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Summer 2023<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/AH516F22.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>AHIS 516: 516 Photography and Visual Culture Does Photography Change Everything?<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2022<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/VISS501Fall2021final.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2021<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/History520Fall2020final.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>History 520: Modernity and Its Visual Cultures<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2020<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/VISS-599Spring2020Finalfinal.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>VISS 599: Selling the Story: Commercial Pictures and Visual Persuasion<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2020<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/VISS501Fall2019final.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2019<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/Art_History_516final.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>AHIS 516: Photography and Visual Culture: Does Photography Change Everything? <\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2019<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/VISS501.2017.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2017<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/MDA599VisualHistorySYLLABUS.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>MDA 599: Visual History: The Past in Pictures<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2017<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/mda599_syllabus.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>MDA 599 Getting the Picture: The History and Visual Culture of the News<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2014<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/MDA501finalsyll_copy.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>History 520: Modernity and Its Visual Cultures<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2013<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/MDA501finalsyll_copy-2.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>MDA 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2013<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/514.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>History 514: Nineteenth Century Europe<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2012<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/620.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>History 620: Research Seminar in Modern Visual Culture<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2011<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/501.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>MDA 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2010<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n                              \n  \n    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href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2025\/08\/FINALSyllabusIconssp25-2.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>CORE 101: Symbols and Conceptual Systems<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2025<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/06\/FINALSyllabusIconssp23.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>Core 101: Symbols &amp; Conceptual Systems: Icons<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2023<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/06\/Maymestersyll499schwartzfinal.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>Art History 499: Paris Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Summer 2022<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/AH476finalfinal_1.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>Art History 476: The Art of Walt Disney<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2021<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/Hist225gSpring2020Final.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>History 225g: Film, Power and American History<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2020<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/Iconssp19SchwartzFinalSYLLABUS.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>Core 101: Icons: Symbols and Conceptual Systems<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2019<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/cinhistsp17.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>History 381: Cinema and History<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2017<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/AHIS367syllupdated.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>AH 367 Modern Art II: 1840-1940<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2014<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/429.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>History 429: Street Life: Urban Culture in Modern Europe<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Fall 2011<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/101.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>Core 101: Symbols and Conceptual Systems: ICONS<\/h3>\n                \n                                    <span class=\"card-description\">Spring 2011<\/span>\n                \n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n                            <a href=\"\/vanessaschwartz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2023\/05\/225.pdf\" >\n            \n                                    <h3>History 225: Film, Power and American History<\/h3>\n         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