Visual Studies (VIS STD)

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Courses

VIS STD 180A Introduction to Visual Studies: Word and Image 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
Projects in graphic form, color, and word-image relationships.
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VIS STD 180B Introduction to Visual Studies: Word and Image 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
Projects in graphic form, color, and word-image relationships.
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VIS STD 181 Introduction to Photography 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008 8 Week Session
This course will use the visual vocabulary of the digital camera as a way to record, respond and create. Students will gain technical mastery over the camera, image workflow, image editing, printing, and other forms of presentation. Exposure to the history and to the most current trends of the medium will broaden students' understanding of how photographs speak. Topics of discussion will include lighting, timing, creating a sense of place, and building a narrative structure.
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VIS STD C185A Visual Autobiography 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
Since visual and literary studies have historically been viewed as separate disciplines, we will use theories from both to study those forms of self-representation that defy disciplinary boundaries, or what we call "visual autobiography." The course aims to help students become conversant with the elements of alphabetic literacy (reading and writing) and visual literacy (observing and making) in order to develop a third distinctive textual/visual literacy.
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VIS STD 185X Selected Topics: Word and Image 1 - 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session
Studio projects and seminar discussion, topics vary by semester. See department website for current offerings.
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VIS STD 186A Selected Topics: Photography: Documentary Photography 3 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2009
Studio sections in Photography as an Art Form, Documentary Photography, Light and Motion Studies, Artificial Lighting Photography. For current section offerings see departmental announcement.
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VIS STD 186B Selected Topics: Photography: Photography As an Art Form 1 - 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Studio sections in Photography as an Art Form, Documentary Photography, Light and Motion Studies, Artificial Lighting Photography. For current section offerings see departmental announcement.
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VIS STD 186X Selected Topics: Photography: Special Topics: Photography 1 - 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 8 Week Session, Summer 2014 8 Week Session
Studio sections in Photography as an Art Form, Documentary Photography, Light and Motion Studies, Artificial Lighting Photography. For current section offerings see departmental announcement.
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VIS STD 187A Selected Topics: Drawing: Freehand Drawing 1 - 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 8 Week Session

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VIS STD 197 Field Studies in Visual Studies 1 - 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Summer 2013 10 Week Session, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
Supervised experience relevant to specific areas of design in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required. See General Catalog regarding unit limitation toward the degree.
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VIS STD 198 Special Group Study 1 - 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2009
Studies developed to meet needs. See General Catalog regarding unit limitation toward the degree.
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VIS STD 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
Enrollment is restricted by regulations listed in General Catalog. Studies developed to meet individual needs.
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VIS STD 280 Advanced Visual Studies 1 - 3 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Advanced work in visual studies and photography.
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VIS STD 298 Special Group Study 1 - 5 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Special group studies on topics to be introduced by instructor or students.
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VIS STD 299 Individual Study and Research for Master's Students 1 - 5 Units

Offered through: Architecture
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
Individual studies including reading and individual research under the supervision of a faculty adviser and designed to reinforce the student's background in areas related to the proposed topic.
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