AVC374
Methods in the Study of Art and Visual Culture
Subject code
AVC
Course Number
374
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
E. Rand
Course Long Title
Methods in the Study of Art and Visual Culture
Description
This course considers the history and methodology of art history and visual culture studies, with an emphasis on recent theoretical strategies for understanding visual culture. Topics discussed include stylistic, iconographic, psychoanalytic, feminist, historicist, queer, antiracist, and postmodern approaches to the study of visual material. Prerequisite(s): two 200- or 300-level courses in the history of art and visual culture.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
Art & Visual Culture:Hist-Crit
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years
Offering Frequency
Normally offered every year