Spring 2027

Visual Cultures: Topics in Visual Cultures

Graduate course exploring variable topics in Visual Culture with analytic attention to gender, sexuality, and race.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Victor Goldgel-Carballo

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop ability to work with Visual Culture theories and methods

  • Develop ability to critique, extend and even revise visual culture theories

  • Demonstrate a practice-based, working knowledge of visual culture theories and methods in producing original research which may take written or visual form

  • Develop the critical analytic, rhetorical, and technical skills necessary to effectively communicate original research in Visual Culture.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
AFROAMER/ARTHIST 802

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

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Calendar & sections

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 150
SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 140

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Gender, sexuality, and race in Visual Culture
  • Visual Culture theories and methods

Skills

  • Working with Visual Culture theories and methods
  • Critiquing, extending, and revising visual culture theories
  • Communicating original research in Visual Culture using critical analytic, rhetorical, and technical skills

Grades

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Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
AFROAMER/ARTHIST 802 · Spring 2027

Visual Cultures: Topics in Visual Cultures

Recorded 2026-10-14
AFROAMER/ARTHIST 802 · Spring 2027

Colonial Legacies

Recorded 2026-10-14
AFROAMER/ARTHIST 802 · Spring 2027

Visual Cultures: Topics in Visual Cultures

Recorded 2026-10-14
AFROAMER/ARTHIST 802 · Spring 2027

Colonial Legacies

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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