Course Development
Because interdisciplinarity and collaboration are key features of Visual Studies at Duke, we plan to provide support for courses that break new ground by bringing together faculty for team-teaching across the arts, sciences, social sciences, and engineering. At the undergraduate level, generally these courses should be suitable for inclusion as electives in the Visual Studies major, though they should originate in the home departments of the faculty involved and receive primary support from those departments. We are also interested in helping to coordinate “clusters” of courses tied to each other thematically, and perhaps through common Visual Studies projects engaged in by the students in the classes. Clusters might be introductory, and be proposed for the Focus program, or might consist of more advanced undergraduate or graduate courses.
As part of our Digital Delivery efforts, we also encourage courses that ask students to produce visual media projects as part of their formal “writing” assignments, and welcome faculty interest in testing out new resources for digital delivery as we bring them online in collaboration with the Center for Instructional Technology and the Office of Information Technology at Duke. We will publish RFPs for these opportunities as they arise.