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

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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.

Courses 2020-2021

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

Spring 2021

FRESHMAN SEMINARS
Getting Your Hands on Time				33O	Ruth Lingford	M 12:00-4:00
Video: The Medium of Everyday Life				63V	Karthik Pandian	Tu 12:00-2:45
Vegetal Humanities: Plant-Based Knowledge in Twenty-first-Century Art and Culture				63W	Carrie Lambert-Beatty	M 12:45-2:45
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				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 12:00-2:45, Thu 1:00-4:00
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				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	M 9:00-11:00, Thu 9:00-1:00
ANIMATION, FILM, VIDEO and NEW GENRES (practice-based courses)
Introduction to Creating NonFiction Still and Moving Images				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	F 12:00-2:45, 3:00-4:15
Immersive Experience As Art				157L	Young Lee	F 3:00-5:45
Marginal Images: Cinematography for Filmmakers				159J	Joana Pimenta	TuTh 9:00-11:45
Enter the Mediaverse				161L	Lex Brown	M 6:00-8:45
Sonic Ethnography				252	Ernst Karel	MW 6:00-8:45
Audio in Multimodal Practice				254	Ernst Karel	WF 3:00-5:00
FILM and VISUAL STUDIES (lectures and seminars)
The Art of Film: Currents in Contemporary World Cinema				70	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	TBD
FVS Dissertation Group				305	Laura Frahm	Tu 12:00-2:00
Reading and Research				310	Eric Rentschler	TBD
Directed Study				320	Eric Rentschler	TBD
Teaching Workshop				330R	Eric Rentschler	TBD
Film Study Center Non-Fiction Filmmaking Workshop				351HF	Joana Pimenta	TBD
CMP Projects: Production and Publication				352	Joana Pimenta	TBD
Graduate Studio Workshop				390	Katarina Burin and Robb Moss	TBD

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