VISUAL CULTURES: TOPICS IN VISUAL CULTURES

ARTHIST 430

Introduces key issues, theories, and methods in visual cultures studies, emphasizing aspects that affect the practices of art history and providing a changing topical focus that addresses new research in this developing interdisciplinary area.

GEN&WS 410

Explores topics in gender and visual culture, including artistic practice, political and creative expression, and cultural phenomena. Course topic changes; may be repeated with a different topic.

ARTHIST 407

Nineteenth century visual culture. Topics include: representations of race and gender; the history of photography; popular imagery and aspects of Modernism.

AFROAMER/ARTHIST 801

Focuses on the knowledge, theories, and methods that are fundamental to the transdisciplinary discipline of Visual Cultures. Develops skills in critical reading, research, analysis, writing, and oral presentation.

AFROAMER/GEN&WS 367

Art and visual culture by/or pertaining to women throughout the African Diaspora and Africa. Though the focus is on 10th century art by black women, it will go into visual culture (art objects, photographs, images, dress, culturally-coded representation) concerning black women historically.