Courses

Required Courses:

Note: Any courses taught by members of the VSRI Executive Committee or Advisory Board are automatically approved and will count toward the VSGC certificate requirements.

VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies, Methods and Debates

David Abertson THH 308 Monday 2-4:50pm

A critical introduction to the field of visual studies focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to images, objects, and visual technologies as well as key texts and interpretive debates.

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Pre-approved Seminars:

AHIS 516: Seminar in the History of Photography and Visual Culture

Vanessa Schwartz THH 308 Thursday 2–4:50pm

Explores the history of photography with emphasis on the way the medium has been used as a form of communication and knowledge transmission.

CSLC 501: Introduction to Comparative Media Studies

Edwin Hill THH 207 Monday 2-4:50pm

Ways of thinking about the differences and relations among different cultural media: literature, film, video, manga/comics, “new media,” and so forth.

CTCS 500: Seminar in Film Theory

Thomas Pringle SCA 316 Monday 2–5:50pm

Introduction to classical and contemporary film theory; exploration of their relationship to filmic experimentation.

CTCS 502: World Cinema After 1945

Priya Jaikumar SCA 110 Wednesday 2–5:50pm

Historical survey of film from a global perspective from 1945 until the present.

CTCS 518: Seminar: Avant-garde Film/Video

Jennifer Wild SCA 214 Thursday 2–5:50pm

Aesthetic, historical and ideological issues in avant-garde film and video.

IML 600: Seminar: Historical Approaches to Media Arts and Culture

Vicki Callahan SCA 406 Monday 1–3:50pm

Introduction to the historical specificities of old media (painting, print, photography, film, video, television) and to consequences of the convergences produced by new media forms.

CTCS 564: Seminar in Film and Television Genres

Todd Boyd SCA 316 Tuesday 2-5:50pm

Advanced study of a selected genre of film and/or television its relationship to history, society, and culture, as well as to genre theory.

CRIT 510: History and Theory of Art and Exhibitions

Amelia Jones ATM 113A Thursday 10am–1:20pm

Gives broad and deep overview of history of art as a conceptual and practical category, emphasizing development of exhibitionary sites and engagement with public sphere.

COMM 563: Black Popular Culture: Theory and Central Debates

Taj Frazier ASC 236 Thursday 9:30am–12:20pm

Examines black popular cultures as indexes for historical struggles over race, gender, nationalism, identity, subjectivity, aesthetics, institutional resources, political/cultural autonomy, and ideology.

COMM 580: Media and Politics

Daniel Schnur ASC 240 Thursday 2–5:20pm

Mass media in American political life, including political reporting, election campaigns, non-electoral politics, and the media as a political issue.

COMM 658: Science Fiction as Media Theory

Hector Amaya ANN 405 Monday 2–4:50pm

Considers science fiction as a genre that has consistently reflected on communication technologies and their consequences and the ways science fiction metaphors have shaped media and cultural theory.

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