Viz

CAMS 350: Visual Studies Seminar

Instructor: John Schott
Cinema and Media Studies
Winter 2011
Course Description
Images abound: contemporary life increasingly is defined by the pervasiveness of visual images which inform, entertain, document, manipulate, and socialize us. This seminar explores a wide range of critical issues and methods--both historical and contemporary--that provide students a theoretical and critical command of contemporary visual experience. Our primary focus is the photographic image as the foundational logic not only of photochemical and digital photography, but of cinema, the web and emerging forms such as virtual reality and computational digital imagery. This seminar offers essential critical tools for students of film history, photography and contemporary media.

Visual Studies Course Syllabus (Acrobat (PDF) 3.8MB Mar7 11)