Courses in Art, Film, and Visual Studies - Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 | Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

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For course information from previous years, visit the Registrar's courses of instruction archive.
For the admission procedure for instructor-consent, limited-enrollment courses, see About Limited-Enrollment Courses.
For a list of courses approved for graduate credit, see Courses in Film and Visual Studies.
For a list of courses approved for AFVS concentrators to take for departmental elective credit, see Courses in Other Departments.

Fall 2020

ARTS (New College-wide Course Area)
The Garden	ARTS 20	Karthik Pandian; Claire Chase & Jill Johnson	Tu 12:00-2:45
GENERAL EDUCATION
The Art and Politics of Propaganda: The Nazis and their Legacy	GENED 1012	Eric Rentschler	MW 12:00-1:15
STUDIO ART & PHOTOGRAPHY (practice-based courses)
Relief Printmaking: Beginning Studio Course	AFVS 16R	Annette Lemieux	TuTh 12:00-2:45
Lay of the Land: A Studio Based Seminar	AFVS 37	Stephen Prina	Tu 12-2:45, Thu 12-4
Introduction to Photography: Beginning Studio Course	AFVS 41A	Sharon Harper	MW 12-2:45
Frame, Spectacle, Spectator: Video as Medium	AFVS 64F	Carissa Rodriguez	M 1:30-5:45
Drawing 2: Model Witness	AFVS 112	Katarina Burin	TuTh 12:00-2:45
Thinking With Your Hand: Intermediate Painting	AFVS 120	Judith Belzer	Tu 12:00-5:45 (start time 12:30)
Sun & Shadow, Sculpture Studio	AFVS 133	Nora Schultz	TuTh 9:00-11:45
Nah; or, gestures of resistance: Performance, Technology, and Refusal	AFVS 134S	SCRAAATCH	WF 3:00-5:00
Making Mischief: A Studio Based Seminar	AFVS 141BR	Sharon Harper	MW 3:00-5:45
Making Mischief: A Studio Based Seminar	AFVS 141BR	Sharon Harper
Directed Research: Studio Course	AFVS 196R	Stephen Prina	W 6:00-8:00
Studio Language	AFVS 231	Nora Schultz	MW 9:00-11:45
ANIMATION, FILM, VIDEO&NEW GENRES (practice-based courses)
Introduction to Creating Nonfiction Still and Moving Images	AFVS 50A	Alfred Guzzetti	TuTh 12:00-2:45
Choice and Chance: Mysteries of the Editing Room	AFVS 52R	Robb Moss	TuTh 12:00-2:45
Fundamentals of Animation	AFVS 53AR	Ruth Lingford	M 12:00-4:00
First-Person Cinema	AFVS 55V	Alfred Guzzetti	MW 12-2:45
Frame, Spectacle, Spectator: Video as Medium	AFVS 64F	Carissa Rodriguez	M 1:30-5:45
Nah; or, gestures of resistance: Performance, Technology, and Refusal	AFVS 134S	SCRAAATCH	WF 3:00-5:00
Film Directing: Fiction Now	AFVS 150A	Dominga Sotomayor	TuTh 1:30-4:15
Non Fiction Video Projects	AFVS 151BR	Ross McElwee	TuTh 9:00-11:00
Experimental Animation	AFVS 153AR	Young Joo Lee	W 1:30-5:45 (start time 2pm)
Social Justice Filmmaking	AFVS 154M	Julie Mallozzi	WF 12:00-2:45
Sensory Ethnography 3	AFVS 158CR	Verena Paravel	MWF 12:00-2:00
Sensory Ethnography 4	AFVS 158DR	Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor	MWF 12:00-2:00
Un cine para hoy: Remapping Latin American Cinema	AFVS 169S	Haden Guest & Dominga Sotomayor	W 12-2:45
FILM and VISUAL STUDIES (lectures and seminars)
The Behavior of Images	AFVS 75	David Joselit	TuTh 10:30-11:45
Studies of Built N. American Environment since 1580	AFVS 107	John Stilgoe	TuTh 9:00-10:15
Stranger than Fiction	AFVS 108	Carrie Lambert-Beatty	Tu 12-2:45
Photography and Ecology	AFVS 144M	Makeda Best	Thu 12:45-2:45
North American Seacoasts and Landscapes	AFVS 166	John Stilgoe	Tu 12:00-2:45
Un cine para hoy: Remapping Latin American Cinema	AFVS 169S	Haden Guest & Dominga Sotomayor	W 12-2:45
Political Cinema	AFVS 179	Dennis Lim	M 3:00-5:00
Cinema and the Auteur	AFVS 183T	Tom Conley	MW 10:30-11:45
Under Surveillance: Media, Security and the Loss of Privacy	AFVS 184E	Eric Rentschler	Tu 12:45-2:45
New Media Theory	AFVS 241	Laura Frahm	M 12:00-2:00
Proseminar in Film & Visual Studies: Theory	AFVS 271	Giuliana Bruno	Thu 12:00-2:00
Screens: Projecting Media and the Visual Arts	AFVS 283	Giuliana Bruno	W 12:00-2:00
From Biopolitics to Care of the Self	AFVS 293	David Joselit	W 3:00-5:00
GRADUATE COURSES of PRACTICE, READING AND RESEARCH
Film and Visual Studies Workshop	AFVS 301	Eric Rentschler
FVS Dissertation Group	AFVS 305	Laura Frahm	Tu 12:00-2:00
Reading & Research	AFVS 310	David Joselit
Directed Study	AFVS 320	David Joselit
Teaching Workshop	AFVS 330	David Joselit
Film Study Center Non-Fiction Filmmaking Workshop	AFVS 351HF	Lucien Castaing-Taylor
CMP Projects: Production and Publication	AFVS 352	Joana Pimenta	Tu 3:00-5:45
Advanced Critical Media Practice	AFVS 355R	Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Joana Pimenta	W 3:00-5:45

FRESHMAN SEMINARS
Getting Your Hands on Time	33O	Ruth Lingford	M 12:00-4:00
Video: The Medium of Everyday Life	63V	Karthik Pandian	W 12:00-2:45
Vegetal Humanities: Plant-Based Knowledge in Twenty-first-Century Art and Culture	63W	Carrie Lambert-Beatty	TBD
REQUIRED FOR ALL AFVS CONCENTRATORS
Sophomore Tutorial	97	Sharon Harper	Th 6:00-8:00
STUDIO ART and PHOTOGRAPHY (practice-based courses)
Drawing 1: Drawing as a Visual Language	12	Katarina Burin	TuTh 12:00-2:45
Making Things: Form, Function, and Materials	14	Katarina Burin	W 3:00-7:00
Relief Printmaking: Beginning Studio Course	16R	Annette Lemieux	MW 12:00-2:45
Building Thought: Sculpture Course	35R	Annette Lemieux	MW 3:00-5:45
Introduction to Still Photography	40A	Elle Perez	MW 12:00-2:45
Loitering: A Studio-Based Seminar	80	Stephen Prina	Tu 12-2:45, Thu 1-4
Time Out of Mind: Exploring Painting as Time Based Media	126	Tomashi Jackson	Thu 12:00-4:00
Intermediate Photography	147F	Carissa Rodriguez	M 1:30-5:45
Enter the Mediaverse: Studio Course	161L	Lex Brown	M 6:00-8:45
Directed Research: Studio Course	196R	Stephen Prina	W 6:00-9:00
Studio Language	231	Adrian Williams	Thu 9:00-1:00
ANIMATION, FILM, VIDEO and NEW GENRES (practice-based courses)
Introduction to Non Fiction Filmmaking	50A	Alfred Guzzetti	MW 12:00-2:45
Introduction to Video	51A	Ross McElwee	TuTh 9:45-11:45
Fundamentals of Animation	53AR	Ruth Lingford	W 12:00-4:00
Approaching Narrative: Introduction to Filmmaking	60X	Dominga Sotomayor	MW 12-2:45
Film Direction: From Script to Screen	150B	Dominga Sotomayor	TuTh 1:30-4:15
Intermediate Video Workshop: Studio Course	152R	Robb Moss	TBD
Immersive Storytelling Using Mixed Media	157L	Young Lee	Tu 3:00-5:45
MARGINAL IMAGES: cinematography for filmmakers	159J	Joana Pimenta	TuTh 3:00-5:45
Enter the Mediaverse: Studio Course	161L	Lex Brown	M 6:00-8:45
Sonic Ethnography	252	Ernst Karel	MW 6:00-7:15
FILM and VISUAL STUDIES (lectures and seminars)
The Art of Film	70	Laura Frahm and Haden Guest	MW 10:30-11:45
Curating Contemporary Art: Exhibitions, Artists, Institutions, and Audiences	118C	Dan Byers	Tu 12:00-2:45
Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035	160	John Stilgoe	TuTh 9:00-10:15
Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar	167	John Stilgoe	Tu 12:00-2:45
Queer (and Queering) Cinema	175L	Dennis Lim	M 3:00-5:00
Proseminar in Film and Visual Studies: History	270	Tom Conley	Tu 12:00-2:45
GRADUATE COURSES of PRACTICE, READING AND RESEARCH
Film and Visual Studies Workshop	301	Eric Rentschler
Reading and Research	310	Eric Rentschler
Directed Study	320	Eric Rentschler
Teaching Workshop	330R	Eric Rentschler	TBD
Film Study Center Non-Fiction Filmmaking Workshop	351HF	Joana Pimenta	TBD
Graduate Studio Workshop	390

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