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3.00 Credits
This course reflects changing concerns in the contemporary art world. Working in various media of their choice, students share a common investigation of the process of making meaning, and the impact material has on visual thinking/visual product. Students consider the potential of format, with emphasis on processes that balance critical thinking with creative generation. Prerequisite(s): one previous studio art course. Not open to students who have received credit for Art and Visual Culture 350. Enrollment limited to 10. Instructor permission is required. Normally offered every year. P. Johnson.
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3.00 Credits
Continued study of contemporary studio practice, as introduced in Visual Meaning I. Prerequisite(s): Art and Visual Culture 350A. Instructor permission is required. Normally offered every year. P. Johnson.
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3.00 Credits
Students, in consultation with a faculty advisor, individually design and plan a course of study or research not offered in the curriculum. Course work includes a reflective component, evaluation, and completion of an agreed-upon product. Sponsorship by a faculty member in the program/department, a course prospectus, and permission of the chair are required. Students may register for no more than one independent study per semester. Staff.
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1.00 Credits
Students who have arranged to participate in a volunteer internship at the Bates College Museum of Art may receive one course credit by taking this course at the same time. Depending on the needs of the museum, internships may involve collections management, gallery lecturing, or research. The same arrangement is possible for students who obtain internships at the Portland Museum of Art or summer internships. Students may have internships throughout their college careers, but may receive credit for one semester only. Instructor permission is required. Normally offered every semester. R. Corrie.
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3.00 Credits
A course or seminar offered from time to time and reserved for a special topic selected by the department.
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3.00 Credits
For a variety of reasons the human body has been and continues to be of great importance in Western art, and sustained study from the model is often central to artists' training and practices. This seminar focuses exclusively on drawing from the model in three-hour sessions. Not open to students who have received credit for Art and Visual Culture 365A. Enrollment limited to 12. R. Feintuch, P. Heroux, P. Johnson, J. Nicoletti.
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3.00 Credits
Continued study from the model. Prerequisiste(s): Art and Visual Culture 366A. Instructor permission is required. R. Feintuch, P. Heroux, P. Johnson, J. Nicoletti.
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3.00 Credits
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, anti-racist, 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. Enrollment limited to 15. Normally offered every year. E. Rand.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers issues of sexuality as they affect the study of visual culture, with a focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other queer sexualities. Topics include the value and politics of identifying artists and other cultural producers by sexuality; the articulation of sexuality in relation to race, ethnicity, class, and gender; and the implications of work in sexuality studies for the study of art and other forms of visual culture in general. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. E. Rand.
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3.00 Credits
The seminar considers selected topics in the history of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design. Possible subjects include Versailles, the English landscape garden, the Periclean building program, Rome in the Baroque, the architecture and landscaping of world's fairs, and the domestic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Enrollment limited to 15.
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