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VISM 4B90
Special Topic in Visual Culture: Looking and Motion: Mobile Practices & Technology
0.50 Credit(s)
Academic Course
Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal arts & sciences (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Mobility is a grounding concept in the history of communication and technology. This course uses “mobility” to traverse the history of mobile subjects and technologies from early mass society to the contemporary digital age. The class addresses the political, economic and social norms that articulate mobility as a desirable practice for contemporary, consuming subjects. As well, mobility is examined as key to technological developments and wide ranging, digital technologies and is theorized as a time- and space-based practice that encourages resistance in both discursive and aesthetics practices.
Notes: This "Special Topic" course provides more advanced analysis of a topic of general interest or relevance. This course fulfills 0.5 credit toward the Liberal Art & Sciences requirements for a BFA or BDes.
Course was last updated January 17, 2013 - 4:51 PM