Course Code:
VSAR 123
Credits:
3
Calendar Description:
A continuation of Visual Culture 1 with an introduction to major currents in modern and contemporary art theory and criticism.
Date First Offered:
2011-01-01
Hours:
Total Hours: 45
Lecture Hours: 45
Total Weeks:
15
This course is offered online:
No
Pre-Requisites:
VSAR 113 Visual Culture I
Non-Course Pre-Requisites:
None
Co-Requisites:
None
Rearticulation Submission:
No
Course Content:
- Feminism: first, second and third wave
- Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Klein
- Saussure: signifier, signified
- Icon and index
- Social History: Marxism and Critical theory
- Subculture and the meaning of style
- 'Post'-colonialism
- Art and activism
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and discuss key historical and cultural theories used in the history of art from the late 19th Century to the present.
- Describe and explain how images articulate and/or repress such themes and constructs such as gender, politics, ethnicity, and modernity.
Passing Grade:
C (60%)
Grading Weight:
Final Exam: 30 %
Midterm Exam: 25 %
Assignments: 25 %
Participation: 10 %
Other: 10 %
Number of Assignments:
3
Nature of Participation:
Attendance, classroom activities and assignments, discussion
Writing Assignments:
Reading and response
Percentage of Individual Work:
90
Percentage of Group Work:
10
Course Offered in Other Programs:
No
Additional Comments:
Lectures will be based on slide and video presentations and class participation is expected. There will be class activities and in-class written assignments.
There will be one take home midterm exam as well as a final exam.
Students will keep a class journal and submit 4 short written responses to readings.