VMS courses
347 courses · Duke University · Fall 2026
- VMS 89S — First-Year Seminar1 section
- VMS 100 — Visual and Media Studies Lower Level Elective1 section
- VMS 103 — Traditions in Documentary Studies1 section
- VMS 103D — Traditions in Documentary Studies1 section
- VMS 106S — The Documentary Experience: A Video Approach1 section
- VMS 110S — Intro to Digital Culture: Media Theory, Politics, Aesthetics1 section
- VMS 111 — Religion & the Media Turn1 section
- VMS 112 — The Googlization of Knowledge: Information, Ethics, and Technology1 section
- VMS 115S — Introduction to Black and White Photography1 section
- VMS 121CNS — Military Imaginary: Understanding War through Photography1 section
- VMS 125S — Foundations of Game Design1 section
- VMS 130 — Anthropology and Film1 section
- VMS 131 — Experimental Drawing: Image and Bit Play1 section
- VMS 135 — Experimental Sculpture and Installation Art1 section
- VMS 140 — Create, Innovate, Act: Creativity, Innovation, and Social Action1 section
- VMS 141S — Audiovisual Cultures in East Asia: Film, Music, and Other Media1 section
- VMS 155FS — Video Game Design and Critique1 section
- VMS 165FS — Virtual Realities: Collective Dreams from Plato to Cyberspace1 section
- VMS 170 — Advertising and Society: Global Perspective1 section
- VMS 170D — Advertising and Society: Global Perspective1 section
- VMS 171SA — Capturing the City: Documentary Photography in Berlin1 section
- VMS 187FS — Digital Storytelling and Interactive Narrative1 section
- VMS 188FS — Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games1 section
- VMS 189S — Gender and Media1 section
- VMS 190FS — Topics in Focus: Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 190S — Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 196 — Gender, Media, and Sports1 section
- VMS 198 — Experimental Interface Design1 section
- VMS 199 — LGBTQ/Queer Cinema and Cultural Production1 section
- VMS 200 — Visual and Media Studies Lower Level Elective1 section
- VMS 202 — Imagining Europe: Arts, Culture, Politics1 section
- VMS 202D — Introduction to Visual Culture1 section
- VMS 203D — Introduction to Digital Humanities1 section
- VMS 204S — Medicine and the Vision of Documentary Photography1 section
- VMS 205 — Introduction to Performance Studies1 section
- VMS 206 — Digital Imaging1 section
- VMS 207S — Children's Self Expression: Literacy Through Photography1 section
- VMS 208S — The Silent Film: An Introduction1 section
- VMS 209S — Representations of Women in the Classical World1 section
- VMS 210S — Global Digital Media: Critical and Comparative Approaches to Information Technologies1 section
- VMS 211S — Children and the Experience of Illness1 section
- VMS 212FS — Digital Documentary Photography: Education, Childhood, and Growth1 section
- VMS 212S — Digital Documentary Photography: Education, Childhood, and Growth1 section
- VMS 213A — Internship in New York1 section
- VMS 214 — Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games1 section
- VMS 214S — Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games1 section
- VMS 215S — Documentary Photography and the Southern Culture Landscape1 section
- VMS 216 — Anime: Origins, Forms, Mutations1 section
- VMS 217S — Sound, Music, and the Moving Image1 section
- VMS 218S — Sociology through Photography1 section
- VMS 219S — The Tokyo Idea: Visualizing a Global City1 section
- VMS 220S — Ready for Prime Time: Writing the Dramatic TV Episode1 section
- VMS 221 — Printmaking: Silkscreen1 section
- VMS 222 — Animated Film: A History and Aesthetic1 section
- VMS 223 — Melodrama East and West1 section
- VMS 224S — Small Town USA: Local Collaborations1 section
- VMS 226S — Space-Body-Image1 section
- VMS 227S — Color Photography: Fieldwork and Digital Color1 section
- VMS 228S — World of Gaming: Art, Theory, Technology, and Business of a Multi-Billion Dollar Global…1 section
- VMS 229S — Experimental Filmmaking1 section
- VMS 230 — Black Popular Culture1 section
- VMS 231 — Indian Cinema1 section
- VMS 232 — Japanese Cinema1 section
- VMS 233 — Religion in American Life1 section
- VMS 234 — World of Korean and Diaspora Cinema1 section
- VMS 235 — Master Filmmakers of Chinese Cinemas1 section
- VMS 236 — Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture1 section
- VMS 237 — Global Chinese Cities through Literature and Film1 section
- VMS 238S — Media, Technology and Politics1 section
- VMS 240 — Drama of Ancient Rome1 section
- VMS 241 — Computer Graphics1 section
- VMS 243 — Book Art: Typography as Image1 section
- VMS 244D — From Caricature to Comic Strip1 section
- VMS 245 — Arts, Film, Or Media Practicum1 section
- VMS 247 — Global Culture1 section
- VMS 248 — Contemporary Israeli Cinema1 section
- VMS 249 — Building Global Audiences1 section
- VMS 250 — Japanese Architecture1 section
- VMS 251S — Indigenous Journeys in South Asian Film and Literature1 section
- VMS 252S — African Americans & Photography1 section
- VMS 253S — Independent African American Cinema1 section
- VMS 254 — Representing Slavery1 section
- VMS 255 — Social Marketing: From Literary Celebrities to Instagram Influencers1 section
- VMS 256 — Drawing Foundations in Early Modern Europe1 section
- VMS 257L — Web Project Design and Development1 section
- VMS 257S — American Cinema: Redefined1 section
- VMS 260S — Cinematography1 section
- VMS 261S — Moving Image Practice1 section
- VMS 264 — Contemporary Documentary Film: Filmmakers and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival1 section
- VMS 265 — History of Documentary Film1 section
- VMS 266 — Media History: Old and New1 section
- VMS 267 — Film Genres1 section
- VMS 268S — American Film Comedy1 section
- VMS 269 — Religion and Film1 section
- VMS 270S — Constructing Immersive Virtual Worlds1 section
- VMS 271S — Film Animation Production1 section
- VMS 272A — The Arts, Culture, and Performance of New York1 section
- VMS 273 — The Middle East Through Film1 section
- VMS 274D — Race, Genomics, and Society1 section
- VMS 276 — America Dreams American Movies II: Independents Through Streaming1 section
- VMS 277S — Cyber Connections: Communication in the Digital Age1 section
- VMS 278A — Decentering Spanish Otherness: Visual Culture and Coloniality in Contemporary Spain1 section
- VMS 279S — Studies in the United States Culture Industries1 section
- VMS 280 — German Film1 section
- VMS 282 — Drama of Ancient Greece1 section
- VMS 283S — Filming Freedom Movements: Movies, Music, Monuments, Memory1 section
- VMS 285 — Ritual, Performance, and Religion1 section
- VMS 286S — Digital Feminism1 section
- VMS 287 — German History Through Film1 section
- VMS 288A — Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications1 section
- VMS 288L — Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications1 section
- VMS 288S — Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications1 section
- VMS 289 — Introduction to Film Studies1 section
- VMS 290 — Special Topics in Visual Studies1 section
- VMS 290S — Special Topics in Visual Studies1 section
- VMS 290SA — Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 291 — Independent Study1 section
- VMS 293 — Research Independent Study1 section
- VMS 294 — Chinese Art 1900 to Present1 section
- VMS 295S — Arts Entrepreneurship1 section
- VMS 296 — Internship in New York1 section
- VMS 296A-1 — Internship in New York1 section
- VMS 298S — Film Theory1 section
- VMS 299 — Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art1 section
- VMS 300 — Visual and Media Studies Upper Level Elective1 section
- VMS 300S — Visual and Media Studies Upper Level Elective Seminar1 section
- VMS 302 — Philosophy of Mind1 section
- VMS 303 — History of Photography, 1839 to the Present1 section
- VMS 304 — Mapping History with Geographic Information Systems1 section
- VMS 305S — Video Journalism1 section
- VMS 306SA — Latinx Voices in Duke, Durham and Beyond1 section
- VMS 307 — User Experience and User Interface Design and Development1 section
- VMS 308 — Italian Cinema1 section
- VMS 309DS — Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts1 section
- VMS 309S — Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts1 section
- VMS 310S — Archives As Data: Structuring Information for Humanities Scholarship1 section
- VMS 316S — Understanding Mediation1 section
- VMS 317S — Russian Language and Culture through Film1 section
- VMS 318 — Eastern Europe in Transition: Markets, Media, and the Mafia1 section
- VMS 319S — Russian Language and Culture through Film II1 section
- VMS 320A — Contemporary Russian Media1 section
- VMS 321S — Writing Movies and Plays: Adaptation1 section
- VMS 322S — Motion Graphics for Film and Video1 section
- VMS 323S — Social Movements and Social Media1 section
- VMS 324 — Sample & Remix: Contemporary Cultural Production Across Arts & Media1 section
- VMS 325L — Optics and Photonics1 section
- VMS 326 — Introduction to Programming and User Interface Design in Unity 3D1 section
- VMS 326S — Introduction to Programming and User Interface Design in Unity 3D1 section
- VMS 327S — Theories of Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 328S — Media Theory1 section
- VMS 330S — Documenting Black Durham: Discovering Durham's Hallowed Ground through Arts1 section
- VMS 331S — Gender and Popular Culture1 section
- VMS 332L — Virtual Museums: Theories and Methods of Twenty-First-Century Museums1 section
- VMS 332S — American Independent Cinema1 section
- VMS 333S — Photo Workshop1 section
- VMS 334 — Roman Spectacle1 section
- VMS 335 — Black Popular Culture: Black Cinema1 section
- VMS 336 — Pilgrimage and Tourism1 section
- VMS 337 — The History of Hip-Hop1 section
- VMS 338S — Writing the Short Film1 section
- VMS 339S — Sound for Film and Video1 section
- VMS 340 — Popular Representations of Black Masculinity1 section
- VMS 340S — Producing Docu-Fiction1 section
- VMS 341S — Farmworkers in North Carolina: Roots of Poverty, Roots of Change1 section
- VMS 342S — Islamic Media1 section
- VMS 343S — Cold War Hollywood: The Case of Alfred Hitchcock1 section
- VMS 344 — Performance Art History and Theory1 section
- VMS 345S — Dance for the Camera1 section
- VMS 346S — Visual Cultures of Medicine1 section
- VMS 349 — Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes1 section
- VMS 349S — Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes1 section
- VMS 350S — The Photobook: History and Practice1 section
- VMS 351 — 3D Modeling and Animation1 section
- VMS 353 — The Black Performance Tradition: Michael Jackson and Prince1 section
- VMS 354S — Poetic Cinema1 section
- VMS 355 — American Dreams, American Movies1 section
- VMS 355S — Videogame Design and Critique1 section
- VMS 356S — Editing for Film and Video1 section
- VMS 357S — Digital Storytelling and Interactive Narrative1 section
- VMS 358S — Digital Durham1 section
- VMS 359A — Introduction to Global Los Angeles: An Interdisciplinary Survey (Service-Learning)1 section
- VMS 360S — Writing the Movie. Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen1 section
- VMS 362S — 16mm Film Production1 section
- VMS 363S — Time, Space and Film1 section
- VMS 364S — Web Design and Narrative: Artists, Documentarians, Art Historians, and Entrepreneurs1 section
- VMS 365S — The Documentary Turn: Southern Culture1 section
- VMS 365SL — Digital Art History I: New Representational Technologies1 section
- VMS 366L — Theories and Practices of Data Visualization1 section
- VMS 369S — Electronic Music for TV and Movies1 section
- VMS 371S — 'Bollywood' Dance, Music and National Identity1 section
- VMS 373S — The View Camera: Black and White Large Format Photography1 section
- VMS 374 — Artists in Healthcare: Collaborations and Complexities1 section
- VMS 375S — Recycled Cinema1 section
- VMS 376SA — Berlin Film City: Movies in the Metropolis1 section
- VMS 378 — Chinese Buddhist Art1 section
- VMS 379S — Visiting Filmmaker Master Courses: Special Topics1 section
- VMS 380 — Visualizing Cities: Representing Urban Landscapes, Cultures, and Environments1 section
- VMS 380SA — Digital Cities and the Cartographic Imagination1 section
- VMS 381S — Graphic Design in Motion1 section
- VMS 382D — Global Art Since 19451 section
- VMS 383 — Disability Studies Meets Design: A Critical Engagement1 section
- VMS 383S — The Nature Film: History and Practice1 section
- VMS 384S — Storyworlds: The Art, Technology, and Pleasure of Narrative1 section
- VMS 385 — Mafia at the Movies1 section
- VMS 386S — Documentary and Policy: How Documentary Influences Policy1 section
- VMS 387S — Screenwriting1 section
- VMS 388S — Black Thought and Creativity to 18651 section
- VMS 389S — Women and Visual Media Studies1 section
- VMS 390 — Special Topics in Visual & Media Studies1 section
- VMS 390A — Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in Visual Studies1 section
- VMS 390S — Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 390T — Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies: Tutorial1 section
- VMS 391 — Independent Study1 section
- VMS 392 — Independent Study1 section
- VMS 393 — Research Independent Study1 section
- VMS 394 — Research Independent Study1 section
- VMS 396 — Graphic Design in Multimedia: Theory and Practice1 section
- VMS 397L — Interactive Graphics: Critical Code1 section
- VMS 398SA — Duke in New York: New York, New York1 section
- VMS 405S — Media and Conflict1 section
- VMS 411S — Video, Art, Politics1 section
- VMS 412S — Cultures of New Media1 section
- VMS 414A — Urban Fiction and Collective Imagination: Madrid Through Literature and Film1 section
- VMS 417S — The Middle East: From Facebook to Film1 section
- VMS 419 — Spanish Cinema from the Transition to the Present1 section
- VMS 419A — Spanish Cinema from the Transition to the Present1 section
- VMS 425S — Surrealism: Aesthetics and Politics1 section
- VMS 432S — From the Art of the Pleasure Quarters to Tokyo Pop1 section
- VMS 433S — Photography in the Americas: War, Tourism, Art, and Protest1 section
- VMS 434 — Experimental Sculpture and Installation Art1 section
- VMS 435S — Soviet Life through the Camera's Lens1 section
- VMS 436S — Science, Technology, and Art1 section
- VMS 437S — Art and History of Botany1 section
- VMS 438S — Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and Science Fiction1 section
- VMS 439 — Queer China1 section
- VMS 444S — Revolutionary Photographies: Context(s), Iconography, Curation1 section
- VMS 448S — Advanced Art Research and Lab Practice1 section
- VMS 450S — Narrative Projects1 section
- VMS 452S — Animation Projects1 section
- VMS 453S — Cinematography II1 section
- VMS 454SL — Digital Art History II: New Representational Technologies Advanced1 section
- VMS 476S — Archiving and Visualizing Asia/America: Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production1 section
- VMS 489S — Screening Europe1 section
- VMS 490S — Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 490T — Collaborative Computational Media Project Design and Development Topics1 section
- VMS 491 — Independent Study1 section
- VMS 492 — Independent Study1 section
- VMS 493 — Research Independent Study1 section
- VMS 494 — Research Independent Study1 section
- VMS 495S — Honors Thesis Workshop1 section
- VMS 495T — Collaborative Computational Media Project Design and Development1 section
- VMS 497S — Advanced Visual Practice1 section
- VMS 499S — Senior Capstone in Visual & Media Studies1 section
- VMS 502S — Analog Filmmaking and Darkroom Techniques1 section
- VMS 503S — Comics as Research: Visual Approaches to Ethnography, Advocacy, and Journalism1 section
- VMS 505S — Visual Studies from the Global South1 section
- VMS 510S — Neosentience: A Potential Future Form of AI and Research Platform Development via Unreal Game…1 section
- VMS 512S — Performing Gender/Exhibiting Race1 section
- VMS 520 — Eco-Media: Studies in Planetary Futures1 section
- VMS 520S — Eco-Media: Studies in Planetary Futures1 section
- VMS 523S — Imaging a Nation: Japanese Visual Culture 1868-19451 section
- VMS 525S — Art and the Holocaust: Architecture, Art, and Cultural Politics during the Nazi Period1 section
- VMS 533S — Live Images: Ancient and Medieval Representations of the Divine1 section
- VMS 535S — Camera Asia1 section
- VMS 536S — Public History and Memory1 section
- VMS 539S — Queer China1 section
- VMS 540S — Memory and Documentary Cinema in Latin America1 section
- VMS 545 — Black Camera: Still and Moving Images1 section
- VMS 549S — Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and SF1 section
- VMS 551SL — Advanced Digital Art History: New Representational Technologies1 section
- VMS 552 — Citizen Godard1 section
- VMS 555S — Black Visual Theory1 section
- VMS 557S — Trauma in Art, Literature, Film, and Visual Culture1 section
- VMS 558S — Business Strategies for the Arts and Artists1 section
- VMS 559S — Urbanism1 section
- VMS 564S — Physical Computing1 section
- VMS 565S — New Media, Memory, and the Visual Archive1 section
- VMS 567S — Art and Markets1 section
- VMS 571S — Art as Work: Valuing Labor in the Arts1 section
- VMS 575S — Generative Media Authorship - Music, Text & Image1 section
- VMS 576S — Theory & Aesthetics: Rousseau1 section
- VMS 580S — Proseminar 1: Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities1 section
- VMS 581S — Proseminar 2: Critical Approaches to Computational Media Practice1 section
- VMS 588S — Sculpture Europe to China1 section
- VMS 590 — Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 590S — Special Topics in Visual Studies1 section
- VMS 610S — Basic Concepts in Cinema Studies1 section
- VMS 611S — Third Cinema1 section
- VMS 612S — Theories of the Image: The Image in Walter Benjamin1 section
- VMS 613S — Computational Media Studio in Advanced Digital Practice1 section
- VMS 616S — China As World Picture1 section
- VMS 618S — Theories of the Visual1 section
- VMS 620S — Models: Premodern to Posthuman1 section
- VMS 622S — Film-philosophers/Film-makers1 section
- VMS 623S — Media Philosophy: Systems, Information, Capital1 section
- VMS 625S — Comparative Media Studies1 section
- VMS 632 — Questions of National Cinemas1 section
- VMS 635S — 16mm Film Production1 section
- VMS 641SL — Narrative Practice in Global Art Cinema1 section
- VMS 650S — Black Camera: Still and Moving Images1 section
- VMS 655S — Black Feminist Art & Digitality1 section
- VMS 660S — Games, Play, and Selfhood: Immersive Media and Extended Realities1 section
- VMS 670S — Digital Places and Spaces: Imagination, Presence, Affect, Information1 section
- VMS 685S — Visiting Filmmaker Master Course: Special Topics1 section
- VMS 690S — Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 691 — Independent Study1 section
- VMS 692 — Independent Study1 section
- VMS 706 — Digital Imaging1 section
- VMS 709 — Chinese Im/migration: Chinese Migrant Labor and Immigration to the US1 section
- VMS 710S — Performance Art and Performativity: Theories and Methods1 section
- VMS 711S — Video, Art, Politics1 section
- VMS 718S — Sound in Cinema: Sonic Theories in Film and Media1 section
- VMS 720S — Art, Media, Technology/Histories, Theories, and Practices1 section
- VMS 721S — Motion Graphics for Film and Video1 section
- VMS 722S — Curatorial Practices in a Global Context1 section
- VMS 727S — Theories of Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 729S — Experimental Filmmaking1 section
- VMS 731S — The Bauhaus: Architecture, Design, Politics1 section
- VMS 737S — Art and History of Botany1 section
- VMS 739S — Sound For Film and Video1 section
- VMS 740S — Producing Docu-Fiction1 section
- VMS 741S — The Symbolist Movement in the Arts and European Thought1 section
- VMS 743S — Media and Mediation1 section
- VMS 745S — Brutal Humanism in Postwar Austria: Bernhard, Jelinek, Haneke, Seidl1 section
- VMS 748S — Advanced Art Research and Lab Practice1 section
- VMS 751S — Narrative Projects1 section
- VMS 753S — Cinematography II Graduate1 section
- VMS 755S — Videogame Design and Critique1 section
- VMS 757S — Editing for Film and Video1 section
- VMS 760S — Cinematography1 section
- VMS 770S — Critical Digital Humanities: Theory and Practice1 section
- VMS 772 — The Middle East through Film1 section
- VMS 773S — Russian Language and Culture through Film1 section
- VMS 775S — Recycled Cinema1 section
- VMS 781S — Graphic Design in Motion1 section
- VMS 788L — Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications1 section
- VMS 788S — Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications1 section
- VMS 790S — Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 793 — Independent Study in Visual and Media Studies1 section
- VMS 794L — Interactive Graphics: Critical Code1 section
- VMS 795S — Digital Art History/Computational Media Thesis Writing Workshop1 section
- VMS 796L — Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum I1 section
- VMS 797L — Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum II1 section
- VMS 798L — Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum III1 section
- VMS 799L — Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum IV1 section
- VMS 850S — Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy1 section
- VMS 859S — Roman Catholic Visual Piety in the Modern Era1 section
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