Perspectives on Visual and New Media Studies

Catalog description

This course develops students’ knowledge of a wide range of new media, digital, and visual texts that are critically analyzed within particular social, historical, political, theoretical, popular, and/or aesthetic contexts. Through various overlapping forms of representation (textual, digital, aural, visual), students explore recurring themes of new media and visual culture. The course features interactive and diverse approaches to assessment, from traditional papers to digital collaborations that show student engagement with visual and new media texts or performances and their literary/cultural contexts. Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer