Course Description: This introductory course is designed to provide students a basic visual literacy in order to understand and critically analyze the complex and increasingly visual world around us. It introduces historical and contemporary cases where the visual and the visible have played a fundamental role in shaping our environment, our discourses, our ideologies, and our diverse ways of seeing and living. Students will develop pictorial and theoretical tools to see, describe, and critique contemporary culture. 

Under the rubrics of: Visual, Culture/Gaze, Empire/Media, Public/Consumer, Desire/Body, Science/Global, Network, the course aims to teach students how to decode complex images that often seem superficial, but have a deeper meaning and larger sociopolitical implications. By the close reading of theoretical, philosophical, and art historical sources, as well as lectures,
discussion, student presentations, and hands-on projects, students will gain insight into the politics of visuality and visibility.

Taught by Professor Talinn Grigor.

GEs: AH, VL, WC

Course Registration Info:

• CRN: 41208
  • Lecture: M/W 9:00 - 10:50 AM
  • Discussion: W 9:25 - 10:50 AM
  • Location: Shrem Museum of Art 1301

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