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.
| Course | |
|---|---|
| Required Course | |
| FNRT-376 | Visual Culture Theory |
| Electives | |
| Group A | |
| Choose three of the following: | |
| 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 | |
| Choose one of the following: | |
| 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-435 | 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 |