Introduction to Visual Culture

Catalog description

This course offers an introduction to central themes in, and methodologies for, analyzing visual culture. Visual Culture is a transdisciplinary field of study that studies the (re)production, circulation, and reception of images as well as everyday practices of seeing and showing in contemporary culture. By focusing on the cultural and social roles of images, the course examines how images circulate through various media including art, design, advertising, video games, pop culture, and digital technologies. Exploring 'ways of seeing' the visual culture, students will be able to critically read and understand the images and visuality we live with and within. 001545