VISUAL STUDIES
GENERAL INFORMATION
Visual Studies as a distinct area of intellectual activity comprehends the analysis of visual forms, especially symbolic visual forms, from a range of historical, scientific, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. Images can be analyzed within a variety of contexts and by means of a variety of methods, and their study is therefore ideally conceived of in transdisciplinary terms. And since the creation of images has an important bearing on their analysis, visual studies concerns itself with practice as well as theory.
In addition to the courses listed below, which represent only a sampling of formal curricular offerings pertinent to visual studies, interested students should note the extensive offerings in Art, Architecture, Communications, Computer Science, History of Art, Design and Environmental Analysis, Theatre Arts, and the annual listings of offerings in the Society for the Humanities. For additional information, contact Marilyn Rivchin (Theatre Arts).
Courses
Some of these courses may not be taught in 1995-96. For information about availability consult the appropriate departmental listings.
An Introduction to Architecture
(Architecture 132)
Art and Politics in Twentieth-Century Latin America (History 424)
Art and Visual Thinking (Textiles and Apparel 125)
Asian American Images on Film (Asian American Studies 435)
African Cinema (African Studies 435)
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking (Textiles and Apparel 125)
Blacks in Communication Media (Africana Studies 303)
Chicanos and Film: Representations of La Raza (English 242)
Color, Form, Space (Art 110)
Contemporary French Culture Through Film (French 291)
Computer Art (Art 171)
Computer Graphics and Visualization (Architecture 374 and Computer Science 417)
Computer Vision (Electrical Engineering 547)
Design I and II (Design and Environmental Analysis 101-102)
Ethics in Media (Communications 426)
Fiction and Film in France (French Literature 499)
Film and Performance (Theatre Arts 413 )
Filming Other Cultures (Anthropology 290 and Theatre Arts 290)
Fundamentals of 16-mm Filmmaking (Theatre Arts 377)
The Geometry of Tilings, Polyhedra and Structural Engineering (Mathematics 151)
German Film (German Studies 396 and Theatre Arts 396)
Graphic Design (Design and Environmental Analysis 349)
History and Theory of Commercial Narrative Film (Theatre Arts 375)
History and Theory of Documentary and Experimental Film (Theatre Arts 376)
The History of the Book (English 450)
Human Perception (Psychology 342)
Image Analysis I (Civil and Environmental Engineering 613-614)
Impact of Communication Technologies (Communication 626)
The Indian Example and the Visual Tradition in Culture (Architecture 448)
Interactive Multimedia (Communications 439)
Introduction to Film Analysis: Meaning and Value (Theatre Arts 274)
Introduction to Mass Media (Communication 120)
Introductory Photo I (Art 161 and Architecture 251)
Japanese and Asian Film (Asian Studies 313 and Theatre Arts 313)
Latin American and Latino Video (Romance Studies 402 and Theatre Arts 402)
Literature to Cinema (Italian 390)
Machine Vision (Computer Science 664)
The Medieval Illuminated Book (History of Art 337)
Modern Architecture on Film (Architecture 392)
Modern Experimental Optics (Physics 330)
Myth onto Film (Anthropology 653 and Theatre Arts 653)
Optical Methods of Biologists (Biological Sciences 450)
Perception (Psychology 205)
Photo Communication (Communication 234)
Political Theory and Cinema (German Studies 330 and Theatre Arts 330)
Psychology of Television (Human Development and Family Studies 461)
Psychology of Visual Communications (Psychology 347)
Russian Film of the 1920s and French Film of the 1960s (Theatre Arts 378)
Scientific Illustration (Freehand Drawing 417)
Seminar in Museum Issues (History of Art 407)
Social and Cultural Construction of Printed Pictures (History 381)
Spanish Film (Spanish 399)
Special Investigations in Visual Studies (Architecture 458)
Studies in Film Analysis (English 263)
Video: Art, Theory, Politics (English 395, Theatre Arts 395)
Video Communication (Communication 348)
Visual Anthropology (Anthropology 453)
Visual Communication (Communication 230)
Visual Culture and Social Theory (Art History 370, Comp. Lit. 368)
Visual Ideology (Comp. Lit 660, Theatre Arts 660)
Visual Perception (Psychology 305)
The Visual System (Neurobiology and Behavior 326)
