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Courses in Art, Film, and Visual Studies -Fall 2024 (Spring 2025 COMING SOON!)

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Courses 2024

Fall 2024

GENERAL EDUCATION (one lecture course and one practice-based course)
Global Japanese Cinema

 

GenEd 1145 Alexander Zahlten   M 9:00-11:45  
Making things (Breaking Things) GenEd 1191 Katarina Burin   W 12:00-2:45, & sections to be scheduled Tu 9:45-11:45, Tu 3:45-5:45, Th 9:45-11:45, Th 3:45-5:45  
PHOTOGRAPHY and STUDIO ART (practice-based courses)
See, Soak, Squeeze: Studio Course AFVS 21 Maryam Hoseini   Thu 12:00-4:15  
Painting: Light, Form, Surreal (new title)  AFVS 25 Kianja Strobert   TuThu 9:00-11:45  
Introduction to Still Photography AFVS 40H Patrice Helmar   TuThu 9:00-11:45  
Introduction to Still Photography AFVS 40H Patrice Helmar   TuThu 3:00-5:45  
Introduction to Photography AFVS 40S Keisha Scarville   Thu 12:00-4:15  
Introduction to Time-Based Media  AFVS 63M Jumana Manna   MW 9:00-11:00  

Writing Near Art or Art Near Writing

AFVS 102 Rindon Johnson   W 12:00-4:15  
Thinking with Your Hand: Intermediate Painting AFVS 120 Judith Belzer   W 12:00-5:45  
In Motion: Painting and Drawing AFVS 127H Maryam Hoseini   F 9:00-1:00  
Sleight of Hand Sleight of Mind: Creative Process and Photography AFVS 148 Sharon Harper   MW 12:45-2:45  
Directed Research: Studio Course AFVS 196R Rindon Johnson   W 6:00-9:00  
Advanced Projects in Time-Based Media AFVS 264 Jumana Manna   M 12:00-2:45  
ANIMATION, FILM, VIDEO and NEW GENRES (practice-based courses) 
Introduction to Nonfiction Filmmaking AFVS 50A Robb Moss    W 12:00-2:45 & F 12:00-4:15  
Introduction to Nonfiction Videomaking AFVS 52 Sky Hopinka   TuThu 3:00-5:45  
Fundamentals of Animation AFVS 53AR Ruth Lingford   W 12:00-4:15 & F 12:00-2:00 (films)  
Embodied Practices: Coding and Interactivity for Artists AFVS 55P Pascale Tétrault   Tu 12:00-4:15  
Approaching Narrative: Intro to Fiction Filmmaking AFVS 60X Alice Diop   MW 9:00-11:45   
Introduction to Time-Based Media AFVS 63M Jumana Manna   MW 9:00-11:00  
Film Directing: Approaching Fiction Now AFVS 150A Alice Diop   MW 3:00-5:45  
Non-Fiction Video Projects AFVS 151BR Robb Moss   Thu 12:00-4:15  
Intermediate Animation: Intermediate Studio Course AFVS 153BR Ruth Lingford   Thu 12:00-4:15 & F 12:00-2:00 (films)  
Social Justice Filmmaking AFVS 154M Julie Mallozzi   TuThu 12:00-2:45, lab, F 12:00-2:00  
Sensory Ethnography III AFVS 158CR Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel   Tu 12:00-4:15 & F 9:00-12:00  
Sensory Ethnography IV AFVS 158DR Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel   Tu 6:00-8:45 & F 9:00-12:00  
Advanced Projects in Time-Based Media AFVS 264 Jumana Manna   M 12:00-2:45  
FILM and VISUAL STUDIES (seminars and lecture courses that fulfill the history/theory requirements for AFVS film/video & studio concentrators & secondary field students)
Studies of the Built North American Environment Discovery to Present: Seminar AFVS 107 John Stilgoe   TuThu 9:00-10:15  
North American Seacoasts & Landscapes AFVS 166 John Stilgoe   Tu 12:00-2:00  
Poetics and Relation: Opacity of the Moving Image AFVS 171N Aily Nash   M 3:00-5:00, M 1:30-2:45 (films)  
Introduction to Media Theories AFVS 175 Antonio Somaini   Tu 9:45-11:45  
Picture This: Contemporary Australian First Nations Art, Film and Visual Creative-led Research AFVS 186C Brenda Croft   M 12:00-2:45  
Indigenous Cinema AFVS 187 Sky Hopinka   W 12:45-2:45, Tu 6:00-8:45 (films)  
Film/Media Theory and Practice in France, 1950-2024 AFVS 190W Tom Conley   Tu 12:00-2:00, W 3:00-5:00 (films)  
AI and Art  AFVS 222 Antonio Somaini   M 3:00-5:00  
Proseminar in Film and Visual Studies AFVS 272 Giuliana Bruno   W 12:00-2:00  
Introduction to Contemporary Art  HAA 17K Carrie Lambert-Beatty   MW 1:30-2:45  
Film Sound/Film Music Music 22 Carolyn Abbate & Yvette Jackson   MW 1:30-2:30
Performing Outside the Theater  TDM 172B Tania Bruguera    Tu 3:00-5:45  
Collective Protocols as Public Space 

 

TDM 187B Tania Bruguera    W 3:00-5:45  
GRADUATE COURSES OF PRACTICE, READING & RESEARCH
Film & Visual  Studies Workshop AFVS 301        
Reading & Research AFVS 310 Laura Frahm      
Directed Study AFVS 320 Laura Frahm      
Teaching Workshop AFVS 330R Laura Frahm      
Film Study Center Non-fiction Filmmaking Workshop AFVS 351HF Joana Pimenta   Tu 6:00-8:30  

Spring 2024

FIRST YEAR SEMINAR
Vegetal Humanities: Paying Attention to Plants in Contemporary Art and Culture FS 63W Carrie Lambert-Beatty Tu 12:45-2:45 485 Broadway- Room 423
GENERAL EDUCATION (lecture)
Modern Art and Modernity* GEN ED 1156 David Joselit, Maria Gough & Ewa Lajer-Burcharth TuThu 10:30-11:45 485 Broadway- Room 029
*This course fulfills a history/theory requirement for AFVS concentrators in the studio or film/video area, or as an introductory course for concentrators in the film and visual studies area. It also counts toward the secondary field in any of the three areas.    
PHOTOGRAPHY and STUDIO ART (practice-based courses)
Exploring the Human Form: An Introduction to Figure Drawing AFVS 11G Maria Gamboa F 12:00-4:15 Carpenter Center 4th Floor 
Drawing 1: Drawing as a Visual Language AFVS 12 Katarina Burin MW 3:00- 5:45 Carpenter Center 4th Floor 
Painting, Smoking, Eating AFVS 24 Matt Saunders W 1:30-5:45 Carpenter Center 3rd Floor 
Building Thought: Sculpture Course AFVS 35 Annette Lemieux TuThu 12:00- 2:45 Carpenter Center 2nd Floor
Introduction to Still Photography AFVS 40H Patrice Helmar TuThu 9:00-11:45 Carpenter Center B19
Painting and the Multiverse AFVS 121S Kianja Strobert  Thu 1:30-5:45 Carpenter Center 3rd Floor
Post Brush AFVS 123R Annette Lemieux TuThu 9:00-11:45 Carpenter Center 4th Floor 
Abstraction AFVS 124K Kianja Strobert TuThu 9:00-11:45 Carpenter Center 2nd Floor
Volumes: Sound, Sculpture and Space AFVS 136S chukwumaa M 1:30-5:45 Carpenter Center 2nd Floor 
Ghost Image AFVS 149H Patrice Helmar TuThu 3:00-5:45 Carpenter Center B19
Directed Research AFVS 196R Stephen Prina  W 6:00-9:00 Carpenter Center 5th Fl, & CC B04
Critical Printing AFVS 215 Matt Saunders & Jennifer Roberts TuThu 12:00- 2:45 Carpenter Center 3rd Floor 
ANIMATION, FILM, VIDEO, and NEW GENRES (practice-based courses)
Introduction to Nonfiction Filmmaking AFVS 50B Robb Moss  W 12:00-2:45, F 12:00-4:15 Sever B10
Fundamentals of Animation AFVS 53AR Ruth Lingford Th 12:00-4:15 & F 12:00-2:00 Sever 402-405, CC B04 for scr
Animating Science AFVS 54S Ruth Lingford & Alain Viel W 12:00-4:15, F 12:00-2:00 Sever 402-405, CC B04 for scr
Photographic/Cinematic: introduction to lens-based practices AFVS 65 Joana Pimenta M 12:00-4:15, W 12:00-2:45 Carpenter Center B04
Film Direction: From Script to Screen AFVS 150B Alain Gomis TuThu 12:00-2:45 Sever 415
The Bolex: Working in Film AFVS 152F Alfred Guzzetti TuThu 12:00-2:45 Sever B10
Documentary Fictions AFVS 155 Joana Pimenta Tu 12:00-2:45 & Thu 12:00-4:15 Sever 416
Experimental Animation: Moving in Place AFVS 157K Kim Forero-Arnias Tu 12-4:15 & F 12:00-2:00 Sever 402-405, CC B04 for scr
Sensory Ethnography 1 AFVS 158AR Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor Tu 12:00-4:15 & F 9:00-11:45 Carpenter Center B04 & Carpenter Center Theater 
Sensory Ethnography 2 AFVS 158BR  Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor Thu 12:00-4:15 & F 9:00-11:45 Carpenter Center B04 & Carpenter Center Theater 
The Essay Film AFVS 159H Sky Hopinka MW 3:00-5:45 Sever 415
Filming Science HISTSCI 1520 Robb Moss & Peter Galison TuThu 9:00-11:45 Sever 416
FILM and VISUAL STUDIES (lectures and seminars)
Curating Contemporary Art AFVS 118C Dan Byers W 12:00- 3:30 Carpenter Center 402
Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035 AFVS 160 John Stilgoe TuThu 9:00-10:15 Sever 214
Adventure and Fantasy Simulation 1871-2036 AFVS 167 John Stilgoe Tu 12:00-2:45 Sever 212
Contemporary Moving Image Practices AFVS 172 Aily Tanaka Nash Tu 7:00-9:00 (film scr) & W 12:45-2:45 (seminar) Carpenter Center Theater for films & Carpenter Ctr 401 for seminar
Traditions of Avant Garde Cinema AFVS 177 Haden Guest M 3:00-5:00 (film scr) & W 3:00-5:00 (seminar) Carpenter Center Theater for films & Carpenter Ctr 401 for seminar
Feminist Approaches to Film AFVS 198F Aily Tanaka Nash Tu 3:00-5:00 (film scr) & W 9:45-11:45 (seminar) Carpenter Center Theater for films & Carpenter Ctr 401 for seminar
Genealogies of Art, Film and Visual Studies AFVS 268 Carrie Lambert-Beatty Thu 3:00-5:45  

Sever M12

Cinema and Cartography Rom-Std 154 Tom Conley Tu 12:00-2:30(seminar) & W 3:00-5:00(film scr) Carpenter Center 402 for seminar & Carpenter Center Theater for films
East Asian Media Studies EAFM 111 Alexander Zahlten MW 10:30-11:45  
Topics in Chinese Film and Media Studies EAFM 220 Jie Li Thu 12:45-2:45  
Australian First Nations Art, Culture and Politics HAA 17G Brenda Croft M 3:00-5:45 485 Broadway, room 422
REQUIRED for all AFVS CONCENTRATORS
Sophomore Tutorial AFVS 97 Sharon Harper Thu 6:00-8:00  Linden 109 & Linden 100
GRADUATE COURSES OF READING & RESEARCH
Film & Visual Studies Workshop AFVS 301      
FVS Writing Seminar AFVS 305 Laura Frahm M 3:00- 5:00 Carpenter Center 402
Reading & Research AFVS 310 Laura Frahm  
Directed Study AFVS 320 Laura Frahm    
Teaching Workshop AFVS 330 Laura Frahm    
Film Study Center Non Fiction Filmmaking Workshop AFVS 351HF Joana Pimenta Tu 5:30-8:30 Sever 416
Advanced Critical Media Practice AFVS 355R Tania Bruguera W 3:00-5:45  485 Broadway, room 113
Graduate Studio Workshop AFVS 390 David Joselit Tu 6:00-8:45 Linden 109