SOC 301 - Contemporary Visual Culture

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American Academy of Art

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Prerequisite: Completion of first-year Humanities and Sciences course requirements 3 semester credit hours This course provides an interdisciplinary examination of visual culture and how the ways of seeing structure our understanding of the world. The course offers historical and contemporary views of visual culture from a sociological perspective incorporating various critical theories. Through field trips, screenings, readings and discussion, the student focuses on how visual culture is constructed, written about, analyzed and viewed in the larger construction of culture.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.aaart.edu

Phone Number:

(312) 461-0600

Calendar System:

Semester

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