Course Offerings

Courses currently being offered:

Check the course schedules/descriptions available via the Registrar's Office for the official schedules for the widest range of terms for which such information is available.


VCS COURSE LISTINGS SPRING 2023

Please consult with the VCS Director if you are considering courses that do not appear on this list.

Core Theory

Comparative Literature

CLTR 440A-1: Philosophy of Music (R. Doran and J. Dunsby) W 4:50-7:30

Core Visual Studies

Art and Art History

AHST 415-1: Seminar on Contemporary Art: Museums (R. Haidu) TR 3:25-4:40
AHST 440-1: African American Cinema and Its Contexts (S. Willis) MW 3:25-4:40
AHST 546-1: Arctic Vision (C. Heuer) T 2:00 - 4:40

Comparative Literature

CLTR 430-1: Film as Object (J. Bernardi) R 2:00-4:40 R

English

ENGL 465-1: Documentary Film (J. Middleton) TR 11:05-12:20

VCS Electives

Art and Art History

AHST 408-1: Cities of the World: Babylon to Brasilia (N. Sayadi) MW 2:00-3:15
AHST 419-1: The 21st Century Art Museum: An Introduction to Museum Studies (N. Blunt) F 12:35-3:25
AHST 459-1: Islamic Textiles: Society, Economy, Politics (A. Topolski) MW 10:25-11:40
AHST 475-1: Paper and Death/Critical Paper (C. Heuer) TR 11:05-11:20

Anthropology

ANTH 457-1: Contemporary Chinese Society (J. Osburg) TR 12:30-1:45

Comparative Literature

CLTR 414N-1: Tourist Japan (J. Bernardi) T 2:00-4:40
CLTR 438A-1: Revolutions and Revolt (L. Cerami) TR 11:05-12:20
CLTR 442A-1: Poe and Hoffman (S. Gustafson) TR 9:40-10:55

English

ENGL 406-1: Magic Language (S. Higley) TR 3:25-4:40
ENGL 408-1: Renaissance Drama (R. Kegl) MW 10:25-11:40
ENGL 425-1: American Renaissance (J. Michael) MW 12:30-1:45
ENGL 429-1: Ideas of America (J. Michael) MW 3:25-4:40
ENGL 438-1: Making Modernism New Again (B. London) MW 3:25-4:40
ENGL 448-1: Contemporary Women's Writing (B. London) MW 11:50-1:05
ENGL 462-1: Postwar Italian Directors: Fellini, Antonioni, Cavani (A. Korn) MW 2:00-3:15
ENGL 504-1: Studies in Book History: The Medieval and Early Modern Miscellany (S. Rozenski) M 2:00-4:40
ENGL 511-1: Literature and Violence (E. Tawil) W 2:00-4:40
ENGL 521-1: Race and Religion in Early Modern Literature (W. Miller) T 2:00-4:40

Music

MUSC 436-1: Music, Ethnography & HIV/AIDS (J. Kyker) TR 12:30-1:45


VCS COURSE LISTINGS FALL 2022

Please consult with the VCS Director if you are considering courses that do not appear on this list.

Core Theory

Art and Art History

AHST 561-1 Classical Film Theory (S. Willis) T 2:00 - 4:40
AHST 583-1 VCS Colloquium (A. Rosensweig) W 9:00 - 11:40

Comparative Literature

CLTR 430A-1 French Social Thought (R. Doran) TR 6:15 - 7:30

Core Visual Studies

Art and Art History

AHST 453-1 Film History: 1929-1959 (S. Willis) MW 2:00 - 3:15
AHST 539-1 Transition! Art (R. Haidu) R 2:00 - 4:40
AHST 544-1 Arctic Ways of Seeing (C. Heuer) T 9:40 - 12:20

VCS Electives

Anthropology

ANTH 407-2 Radical Social Theory (T. Gibson) MW 4:50 - 6:05

Comparative Literature

CLTR 412-1 Monsters, Ghosts and Aliens (S. Gustafson) MW 10:25 - 11:40
CLTR 415B-1 Russian Cinema After Fall (M. Safariants) MW 10:25 - 11:40
CLTR 421-1 Mutilated Bodies: From Traditions to Cutting-Edge Technologies (C. Kemedjio) MW 12:30 - 1:45
CLTR 434-1 Paris, Capital of the 19th Century (R. Doran) TR 4:50 - 6:05

English

ENGL 423-1 Madness, Marriage and Monstrosity (B. London) MW 11:50 - 1:05
ENGL 447-1 Science Fiction (J. Tucker) MW 11:50 - 1:05
ENGL 487-4 Studies in Translation (J. Grotz) W 2:00 - 4:40
ENGL 504-1 Medieval Race Then and Now (T. Hahn) T 2:00 - 4:40
ENGL 543-1 The Africanist Presence in American Literature (J. Tucker) W 2:00 - 4:40
ENGL 551-1 Reading the Lyric (K. Gross) M 2:00 - 4:40

History

HIST 424-1 History of Emotions (T. Devaney) W 2:00 - 4:40
HIST 437-1 George Orwell and the Twentieth Century (S. Weaver) T 2:00 - 4:40
HIST 452-1 Racial Democracies: Mexico vs. Brazil (M. Ball) R 2:00 - 4:40
HIST 472-1 Twentieth Century American Culture (J. Rubin) M 2:00 - 4:40

Japanese

JPNS 493-1 Life and Anime (W. Bridges) WF 12:30 - 1:45

Literary Translation

LTST 410-4 Intro to Literary Publishing (C. Post) MW 12:30 - 1:45

Music

MUSC 410-1 NGOMA: Drum, Dance, S. Africa (J. Kyker) F 10:00 - 12:00

Philosophy

PHIL 423-1 Social and Political Philosophy (R. Terlazzo) MW 3:25 - 4:40
PHIL 503-1 Theory of Knowledge (R. Feldman) M 2:00 - 4:40

Eastman School of Music Courses

MHS 594-2 Music and Digital Culture (D. Mueller, R 1:35 - 3:25)

NOTE: VCS students are encouraged to search for Eastman courses of interest under Music History, Musicology, and Theory.