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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

AM 220 - On Looking


Starting from the premise that ways of seeing are historically and culturally situated, this course will explore fields of vision in nineteenth-century America. How did new photographic technologies and advances in the field of optics change the ways Americans viewed their bodies and surroundings? How do individuals register and theorize shifts in attention and perspective?

Credits: 4

LSC/Core: NA/ Literature & The Arts