Spring 2027

Visual Cultures of India

Studies visual cultures of India across art, photography, cinema, architecture, and urban planning, examining themes like sexuality, patronage, modernism, and nationalism.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Preeti Chopra3.4/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.38 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.40 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.73 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe, appraise and analyze the visual cultures of India through various media including art, architecture, photography, film, mass produced images and popular culture.

  • Discuss texts from various critical perspectives, formulate ideas and make connections between visual/spatial/cultural concepts and themes.

  • Recognize visually and analyze the visual and spatial cultures of India.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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ARTHIST/ASIAN 428

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Raw average: 2.89/5 from 9 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.38 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.40 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.73 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

PREETI CHOPRA is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.38 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.40 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.73 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Image complexes: art, photography, and cinema
  • Visual environments: architecture, urban planning, and public rituals
  • Thematic issues: sexuality, patronage, cultural encounter, transculturation, ways of viewing, modernism, and nationalism

Skills

  • Describe, appraise, and analyze visual cultures of India; discuss texts from critical perspectives; recognize visually and analyze visual and spatial cultures.

Grades

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Catalog & offerings

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ARTHIST/ASIAN 428 · Spring 2027

Visual Cultures of India

Recorded 2026-10-14
ARTHIST/ASIAN 428 · Spring 2027

Visual Cultures of India

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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