Semester Requirements
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Visual culture explores the role of visual media in everyday life and its critical function in the dissemination of ideas in the public sphere. Emphasizing comparative critical approaches to the convergence of art, popular media, science, and technology, the minor engages globalized visual media ranging from photography, television and film, to new media (the Web, digital imaging and social networks), architecture, design, and art (painting, sculpture and multimedia forms) in the context of such social arenas, as art, news, science, advertising, and popular culture.
Required course:
FNRT-376 Visual Culture Theory
Electives–Choose three courses from Group A and one from Group B:
Group A
FNRT-206 Queer Looks
FNRT-350 Introduction to Museums and Collecting
FNRT-351 Panel Painting
FNRT-352 Historic Photographic Processes
FNRT-353 History and Theory of Exhibitions
FNRT-356 Interactive Design for Museums
FNRT-370 American Painting
FNRT-371 African American Art
FNRT-372 American Film of the Studio Era
FNRT-373 American Film Since the Sixties
FNRT-374 Art in the Age of the New Deal
FNRT-375 Women/Gender/Art
FNRT-377 Imag(in)ing Rochester
FNRT-378 Memory, Memorials, and Monuments
FNRT-379 Art of India and Southeast Asia
FNRT-380 Art of China, Korea, and Japan
FNRT-381 Art of Islam: The Arabic Tradition
FNRT-382 Art of Islam: the Persian, Turkish/Mughal Tradition
FNRT-383 Traumatic Images
FNRT-384 Art of Dying
FNRT-440 Deaf Art and Cinema
Group B
ANTH-210 Culture and Globalization
ANTH-240 Muslim Youth Cultures
ANTH-265 Native North Americans in Film
ANTH-310 African Popular Cultures
ANTH-325 Bodies and Culture
ANTH-330 Cultural Images of War
ANTH-375 Native American Repatriation
ANTH-425 Global Sexualities
ANTH-430 Visual Anthropology
ANTH -35 Garbage Archaeology
COMM-341 Visual Communication
COMM-440 Visual Communication of Technical Information
ENGL-410 Film Studies
ENGL-421 The Graphic Novel
ENGL-422 Maps, Spaces and Places
HIST-421 Hands On History
MLFR-351 French Films and Hollywood
MLSP-351 Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Studies
MLSP-352 Caribbean Cinema
PHIL-303 Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
PHIL-309 Feminist Theory
PHIL-313 Philosophy of Film
PHIL-314 Philosophy of Vision/Imaging
POLS-490 Politics Through Film
STSO-321 Faces of the Land