Approved Courses
MAJOR IN VISUAL STUDIES
Approved Courses
| Visual Studies cross-listed number | Departmental course number | Course title |
| VISUALST 101A | ARTHIST 103 | Representing Women in the Classical World (Dillon) |
| VISUALST 101B | ARTHIST 121 | Visualizing Cultural Dissent in Modernism, 1880-1945 (Leighten) |
| VISUALST 101C | ARTHIST 156 | French Art in the Early Modern Period (Van Miegroet) |
| VISUALST 101E | ARTHIST 164 | Chinese Visual Culture (Abe) |
| VISUALST 101F | ARTHIST 173 | Art, Architecture, and Masquerade in Africa (Powell) |
| VISUALST 101G | ARTHIST 199 | History of Photography:1839 to the Present (Leighten) |
| VISUALST 101H | ARTHIST 245S | Art & Markets (Van Miegroet) |
| VISUALST 102A | ARTSVIS 101 | Book Illustration (Shatzman) |
| VISUALST 104A | AAAS 101 | Film and African Diasporas (Lubiano) |
| VISUALST 104B | AAAS 122 | Culture and Politics In Africa (Piot) |
| VISUALST 104C | AAAS 132 | Black Popular Culture (Lubiano, Wallace) |
| VISUALST 105A | AALL 138 | The Media in Modern India (Khanna) |
| VISUALST 105B | AALL 170 | Indian Cinema (Khanna) |
| VISUALST 105C | AALL 171 | Japanese Cinema (Yoda) |
| VISUALST 105E | AALL 179 | Melodrama East And West (Hong) |
| VISUALST 105FS | AALL 175S | Korean Cinema (staff) |
| VISUALST 105G | AALL 188 | Modern Chinese Cinema (Hong) |
| VISUALST 108A | CLST 106 | Drama of Greece and Rome |
| VISUALST 109A | COMPSCI 124 | Computer Graphics (Agarwal or Duvall) |
| VISUALST 110A | CULANTH 104 | Anthropology and Film (Allison, Jackson, or Litzinger) |
| VISUALST 110B | CULANTH 108 | Fantasy, Mass Media and Popular Culture (Allison) |
| VISUALST 110C | CULANTH 109 | Anthropology and The Motion Picture (O’Barr) |
| VISUALST 110E | CULANTH 110 | Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (O’Barr) |
| VISUALST 110FS | CULANTH 116S | Advertising and Masculinity (O’Barr) |
| VISUALST 110G | CULANTH 117 | Global Culture (Allison, Litzinger, Piot, or Starn) |
| VISUALST 110H | CULANTH 132 | Representing The Middle East (Goknar, Stein) |
| VISUALST 110I | CULANTH 143A | Cyborgs (Allison, Nelson and Rudy) |
| VISUALST 103A | DOCST 101 | Traditions in Documentary Studies (staff) |
| VISUALST 103BS | DOCST 104S | Medicine and The Vision of Documentary Photography (Moses) |
| VISUALST 103CS | DOCST 105S | The Documentary Experience: A Video Approach (staff) |
| VISUALST 103FS | DOCST 144S | Children’s Self Expression: Literacy Through Photograph (Ewald) |
| VISUALST 103GS | DOCST 168S | Documenting Religion (Thompson) |
| VISUALST 103HS | DOCST 179S | Reinventing Age (Harris) |
| VISUALST 103IS | DOCST 100S | Children and the Experience of Illness (Moses) |
| VISUALST 103JS | DOCST 113S | Digital Documentary Photography: Capturing Transience (staff) |
| VISUALST 103KS | DOCST 114S | Large Format Photography (staff) |
| VISUALST 103L | DOCST 115 | Introduction To Photography (staff) |
| VISUALST 103M | DOCST 117 | Documentary Photography and The Southern Cultural Landscape (Rankin) |
| VISUALST 103NS | DOCST 118S | Alternative Photographic Process (staff) |
| VISUALST 103PS | DOCST 122S | Visual Research and The American Dream (staff) |
| VISUALST 103QS | DOCST 145S | The Photographic Portrait: The Practice Of Representation (Ewald) |
| VISUALST 103RS | DOCST 146S | Sociology Through Photography (staff) |
| VISUALST 103TS | DOCST 147S | Collaborative Art: The Practice and Theory of Working with a Community (Ewald) |
| VISUALST 103US | DOCST 148S | Planning The Documentary Film: From Concept to Treatment (staff) |
| VISUALST 103VS | DOCST 150S | Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking (staff) |
| VISUALST 103WS | DOCST 158S | Small Town USA: Local Collaborations (staff) |
| VISUALST 103XS | DOCST 176S | American Communities: A Photographic Approach (Harris or Sartor) |
| VISUALST 103YS | DOCST 177S | Advanced Documentary Photography (Harris, Rankin, or staff) |
| VISUALST 103ZS | DOCST 178S | Color Photography: Fieldwork & Digital Color (Harris) |
| VISUALST 111A | EOS 103S | The Surface of the Earth (Haff or Murray) |
| VISUALST 111B | EOS 125 | The Future (Haff) |
| VISUALST 111C | EOS 140 | Remote Sensing in Earth Science (Pratson) |
| VISUALST 111E | EOS 145L | Fossils and Their Applications (Corliss, Wray, and staff) |
| VISUALST 112A | ECON 157 | Financial Markets & Investment (Bollerslev, Eraker, Rasiel, or staff) |
| VISUALST 113A | ECE 135 | Opto-Electronic Design Projects (Brooke, Jokerst) |
| VISUALST 113B | ECE 189 | Digital Image and Multidimentional Processing (Willett) |
| VISUALST 114A | EGR 175 | Aesthetics, Design and Culture |
| VISUALST 115A | ENGLISH 185 | Studies in Film History (Clum, Gaines, or Jameson) |
| VISUALST 117AS | FVD 130S | Introduction To Production (staff) |
| VISUALST 117B | FVD 101 | Introduction To Film |
| VISUALST 117C | FVD 102 | Introduction To Documentary Film (staff) |
| VISUALST 117E | FVD 104 | Film Theory |
| VISUALST 117F | FVD 106 | Film Genres (staff) |
| VISUALST 117G | FVD 107 | American Film Comedy (staff) |
| VISUALST 117H | FVD 108 | Conflict, Conflict Resolution, and Film (Wallace) |
| VISUALST 117IS | FVD 135S | Film Animation Production (Burns) |
| VISUALST 117JS | FVD 136S | Motion Graphics in Film and Video (staff) |
| VISUALST 117KS | FVD 138S | Documentary Film/Video Theory and Practice (staff) |
| VISUALST 117LS | FVD 141S | Editing The TV Documentary (Cutler) |
| VISUALST 118AS | GERMAN 136S | Utopias and Nightmares: Science, Technology and The German Culture (McIsaac) |
| VISUALST 118BS | GERMAN 141S | German Film (McIsaac) |
| VISUALST 118C | GERMAN 189 | Terror and German Cinema |
| VISUALST 118ES | GERMAN 142S | Freud’s Vienna (McIsaac) |
| VISUALST 118FS | GERMAN 158S | Berlin in The 20th Century |
| VISUALST 119A | HISTORY 135B | Weimar and Nazi Germany (Koonz) |
| VISUALST 120A | ISIS 100 | Perspectives on Information Science and Technology (staff) |
| VISUALST 250AS | ISIS 250S | Critical Studies of New Media (Lenoir) |
| VISUALST 250BS | ISIS 240S | Technology and New Media in The University (Szabo) |
| VISUALST 121A | LIT 110 | Introduction To Film (Gaines or Paletz) |
| VISUALST 121B | LIT 112F | Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Anime Culture (Yoda) |
| VISUALST 121CS | LIT 115S | Sexuality in Film And Video (Clum, Metzger, or Gaines |
| VISUALST 121E | LIT 100 | Intro To Cultural Studies (staff) |
| VISUALST 121F | LIT 141 | International Popular Culture (C. Davidson, Gaines, Radway, or Willis) |
| VISUALST 122A | PHIL 102 | Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art (Ward) |
| VISUALST 122B | PHIL 112 | Philosophy of Mind (Einheuser, Flanagan, Guzeldere, or Sanford) |
| VISUALST 50 | PHYSICS 55 | Introduction to Astronomy (Greenside or Scholberg) |
| VISUALST 123A | PHYSICS 185 | Modern Optics I (Guenther) |
| VISUALST 51 | PSY 92 | Cognitive Psychology (Cabeza, Day, or Rubin) |
| VISUALST 124A | PSY 107 | Introduction to Perception (staff) |
| VISUALST 124BS | PSY 158S | Seeing and Knowing: Introduction to Visual Cognition (Mitroff) |
| VISUALST 124CS | PSY 181FS | Functional Neuroimaging (McCarthy) |
| VISUALST 124ES | PSY 174S | Infancy (Needham) |
| VISUALST 124F | PSY112 | Intro. to Cognitive Neuroscience (Purves and staff) |
| VISUALST 125A | PUBPOL 117 | Media and National Security (Mickiewicz) |
| VISUALST 125BS | PUBPOL 118S | Television Journalism (staff) |
| VISUALST 125CS | PUBPOL 119S | Magazine Journalism (Bliwise) |
| VISUALST 125ES | PUBPOL 120S | Newspaper Journalism (Rogerson) |
| VISUALST 125FS | PUBPOL 130S | Violence and The Media (Hamilton) |
| VISUALST 125GS | PUBPOL 132S | Children on the Margins: A Documentary Approach (Harris) |
| VISUALST 251A | PUBPOL 221 | Media and Democracy (Mickiewicz) |
| VISUALST 126A | ITALIAN 124 | Italian Cinema (Dainotto and staff) |
| VISUALST 126BS | PORTUGUE 140S | Brazilian Popular Culture (Damasceno and staff) |
| VISUALST 126C | SPANISH 126C | Film and Political Culture in Contemporary Bolivia |
| VISUALST 126E | FRENCH 155 | French Cinema (Bell) |
| VISUALST 126F | FRENCH 156 | World War II and French Film (staff) |
| VISUALST 126G | FRENCH 157 | Comics and Culture: Images of Modern France in the Making (Tufts) |
| VISUALST 126H | FRENCH 158 | Yesterday’s Classics/Today’s Movies (Longino) |
| VISUALST 126I | FRENCH 159 | Contemporary Culture Wars (staff) |
| VISUALST 126JS | FRENCH 165S | French Films/American Masks (Thomas) |
| VISUALST 126KS | SPANISH 177S | 20th Century Latin American Photography (Gabara) |
| VISUALST 127AS | RUSSIAN 124S | Russian Language and Culture Through Film (Maksimova) |
| VISUALST 127B | RUSSIAN 125 | Eastern Europe in Transition: Markets, Media, and The Mafia (Newcity) |
| VISUALST 127CS | RUSSIAN 126S | Russian Language and Culture Through Film (Maksimova) |
| VISUALST 127E | RUSSIAN 135A | Contemporary Russian Media (staff) |
| VISUALST 127F | RUSSIAN 143 | Contemporary Russian Culture: Detective Novel and Film (Andrews) |
| VISUALST 127G | RUSSIAN 163 | Art and Dissidence: The Films of Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Kurosawa, & Lynch (Gheith) |
| VISUALST 128A | THEATRST 101 | American Drama and Film: 1918-1945 (Clum) |
| VISUALST 128B | THEATRST 102 | American Drama and Film: 1945-1960 (staff) |
| VISUALST 128C | THEATRST 103 | American Drama and Film Since 1960 (Clum) |
| VISUALST 128E | THEATRST 175 | Plays into Film (McAuliffe and Lentricchia) |
| VISUALST 128F | THEATRST 176 | Criminality of Art (Lentricchia and McAuliffe) |
| VISUALST 128GS | THEATRST 179S | Masculine Anxiety and Male-Male Desire in Drama & Film Since 1950 (Clum or Metzger) |
| VISUALST 129A | WOMENST 162 | Gender and Popular Culture (staff) |
| VISUALST 129AS | WOMENST 162S | Gender & Popular Culture (staff) |