2000 Level Visual and Critical Studies Course Descriptions

VCS 2001
Issues in Visual Critical Studies
This course plunges first-year students into visual theory using texts and ideas that universities often leave until graduate school. Students will work through basic “formal” subjects (lectures on form, color, time) at the same time as they explore more “advanced” subjects (lectures on religion, ideology, visual theory). The course is vocabulary-intensive and is intended to give students the widest possible exposure to visual discourse in all cultures and disciplines. The survey is meant to do the same for visual artifacts.