Arts Academic Plans

The global reach of media today challenges us to comprehend how the visual arts, performance, film, design, digital media, architecture, among others, have formed world cultures and societies and are changing them. This interdisciplinary plan investigates the history and theory of visual culture, recognizing the rapidly growing international contexts and vastly diverse cultures of spectatorship.

Students enrolled in any degree program may pursue a minor designation in Visual Culture in a Global Context.

The Visual Culture in a Global Context Minor requires successful completion of a minimum of four academic course units (normally eight courses) with a minimum cumulative minor average of 65%, including:

• VCULT 200, VCULT 300
• one of FINE 102/VCULT 100, FINE 101/VCULT 101
• 2.5 academic units chosen from the following:
  • Art and Art History: ANTH 348, ARCH 225, ARCH 246, ARCH 248, ARCH 342, ARCH 345, ARCH 428, ARCH 442, ARCH 446, ARCH 449, ARCH 520, ARCH 540, FINE 112, FINE 205, FINE 209, FINE 210, FINE 212, FINE 213, FINE 214, FINE 215, FINE 216/INDG 216, FINE 217, FINE 241/CLAS 241, FINE 242/CLAS 242, FINE 243, FINE 281, FINE 282, FINE 293, FINE 305, FINE 319, FINE 330, FINE 341/CLAS 341, FINE 342/CLAS 342, FINE 343, FINE 344, FINE 393, FINE 405, any FINE studio course to a limit of 1.0 unit, INTEG 230, INTEG 320, INTEG 321, PHIL 331/FINE 338, RS 225, SI 230R, SI 231R/EASIA 231R/FINE 275, SPAN 410, THPERF 200, THPERF 246 
  • Film: ARCH 443, FINE 206, FINE 244, FINE 245, FINE 256, FINE 257, FINE 258, FINE 259, FINE 306, FINE 368, FINE 406, FR 486, GER 359/FINE 359, GER 362/FINE 362, GER 363/FINE 363, FINE 364/GER 364/REES 364, GSJ 262/FINE 262, ITALST 281, MUSIC 246, PACS 312, PSCI 254, RS 270R/FINE 252, RS 271R/FINE 253, RS 272/JS 233, RS 275/EASIA 275R, SPAN 410
  • Media: ANTH 202, ANTH 290, ANTH 303, CHINA 320R, any DAC course, ENGL 203/DAC 201, ENGL 204/DAC 202, ENGL 293, ENGL 294, ENGL 392A, ENGL 392B, FINE 293, FINE 393, FR 365, GSJ 201, MUSIC 333, RS 170, SI 230R, SPCOM 228, SPCOM 329, SPCOM 339, SPCOM 440/THPERF 440, THPERF 200, THPERF 278, THPERF 379

Notes

1. Visual Culture covers three topics – art and art history, film, media – and the elective courses have been grouped accordingly. Students can elect from across all three groups of courses to gain broad exposure to different facets of visual culture, or they can concentrate on just one or two groups of courses to get more focused exposure.
2. Consult the Visual Culture co-ordinator in Fine Arts before enrolling in FR 486, ARCH, INTEG, and DAC courses.