Visual & Media Studies Courses

Number Title Codes
VMS 89S First-Year Seminar
VMS 103 Traditions in Documentary Studies CCI, ALP
VMS 103D Traditions in Documentary Studies CCI, ALP
VMS 106S The Documentary Experience: A Video Approach R, ALP, SS
VMS 115S Introduction to Black and White Photography ALP
VMS 125L Foundations of Game Design EI, R, ALP
VMS 125S Foundations of Game Design
VMS 130 Anthropology and Film SS
VMS 131 Experimental Drawing: Image and Bit Play ALP
VMS 135 Experimental Sculpture and Installation Art ALP
VMS 140 Create, Innovate, Act: Creativity, Innovation, and Social Action ALP
VMS 141S Audiovisual Cultures in East Asia: Film, Music, and Other Media CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 170 Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (DS4) CCI, SS
VMS 170D Advertising and Society: Global Perspective (DS4) CCI, SS
VMS 171SA Capturing the City: Documentary Photography in Berlin CCI, ALP
VMS 187FS Digital Storytelling and Interactive Narrative EI, STS, W, CZ
VMS 188FS Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games CCI, SS
VMS 190FS Topics in Focus: Visual and Media Studies
VMS 190S Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies
VMS 198 Experimental Interface Design STS, ALP
VMS 199 LGBTQ/Queer Cinema and Cultural Production ALP, SS
VMS 202 Imagining Europe: Arts, Culture, Politics CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 202D Introduction to Visual Culture CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 203D Introduction to Digital Humanities STS, ALP, CZ
VMS 204S Medicine and the Vision of Documentary Photography ALP
VMS 205 Introduction to Performance Studies CCI, W, ALP
VMS 206 Digital Imaging ALP
VMS 207S Children's Self Expression: Literacy Through Photography EI, ALP, SS
VMS 208S The Silent Film: An Introduction STS, ALP
VMS 209S Representations of Women in the Classical World CCI, W, ALP, CZ
VMS 210S Global Digital Media: Critical and Comparative Approaches to Information Technologies CCI, R, STS, ALP, SS
VMS 211S Children and the Experience of Illness ALP, SS
VMS 212FS Digital Documentary Photography: Education, Childhood, and Growth EI, ALP
VMS 212S Digital Documentary Photography: Education, Childhood, and Growth EI, ALP
VMS 213A Internship in New York
VMS 214 Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games CCI, SS
VMS 214S Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games CCI, SS
VMS 215S Documentary Photography and the Southern Culture Landscape CCI, ALP
VMS 216 Anime: Origins, Forms, Mutations CCI, ALP
VMS 217S Sound, Music, and the Moving Image CCI, W, ALP, CZ
VMS 218S Sociology through Photography ALP, SS
VMS 219S The Tokyo Idea: Visualizing a Global City CCI, STS, ALP
VMS 220S Ready for Prime Time: Writing the Dramatic TV Episode W, ALP
VMS 221 Printmaking: Silkscreen R, ALP
VMS 222 Animated Film: A History and Aesthetic STS, ALP
VMS 223 Melodrama East and West CCI, ALP
VMS 224S Small Town USA: Local Collaborations CCI, R, ALP
VMS 226S Space-Body-Image CCI, ALP
VMS 227S Color Photography: Fieldwork and Digital Color ALP
VMS 228S World of Gaming: Art, Theory, Technology, and Business of a Multi-Billion Dollar Global Industry CCI, EI, STS, CZ, SS
VMS 229S Experimental Filmmaking ALP
VMS 230 Black Popular Culture CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 231 Indian Cinema CCI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 232 Japanese Cinema CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 233 Religion in American Life EI, CZ
VMS 234 World of Korean Cinema CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 235 Master Filmmakers of Chinese Cinemas CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 236 Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture CCI, W, ALP, CZ
VMS 237 Global Chinese Cities through Literature and Film CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 238S Media, Technology and Politics CCI, SS
VMS 240 Drama of Ancient Rome CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 241 Computer Graphics QS
VMS 242 History of Art Markets R, STS, ALP, SS
VMS 242D History of Art Markets R, STS, ALP, SS
VMS 243 Book Art: Typography as Image ALP
VMS 244D From Caricature to Comic Strip CCI, ALP
VMS 245 Arts, Film, Or Media Practicum ALP
VMS 247 Global Culture CCI, SS
VMS 248 Contemporary Israeli Cinema CCI, EI, ALP
VMS 249 Building Global Audiences STS
VMS 250 Japanese Architecture CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 251S Indigenous Journeys in South Asian Film and Literature CCI, ALP
VMS 252S African Americans & Photography CCI, ALP
VMS 253S Independent African American Cinema CCI, ALP
VMS 254 Representing Slavery CCI, EI, ALP, SS
VMS 255 Social Marketing: From Literary Celebrities to Instagram Influencers STS, SS
VMS 256 Drawing Foundations in Early Modern Europe ALP
VMS 257L Web Project Design and Development QS
VMS 257S American Cinema: Redefined ALP
VMS 260S Cinematography ALP
VMS 261S Moving Image Practice STS, ALP
VMS 264 Contemporary Documentary Film: Filmmakers and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival CCI, STS, ALP
VMS 265 History of Documentary Film CCI, ALP
VMS 265A History of Documentary Film CCI, ALP
VMS 266 Media History: Old and New STS, W, ALP, SS
VMS 267 Film Genres ALP
VMS 268S American Film Comedy ALP
VMS 269 Religion and Film CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 270S Constructing Immersive Virtual Worlds STS
VMS 271S Film Animation Production ALP
VMS 272A The Arts, Culture, and Performance of New York CCI, ALP
VMS 273 The Middle East Through Film CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 274D Race, Genomics, and Society EI, STS, NS, SS
VMS 276 America Dreams American Movies II: Independents Through Streaming CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 277S Cyber Connections: Communication in the Digital Age W, ALP
VMS 278A Decentering Spanish Otherness: Visual Culture and Coloniality in Contemporary Spain CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
VMS 279AS Studies in the United States Culture Industries R, W, ALP
VMS 279S Studies in the United States Culture Industries R, W, ALP
VMS 280 German Film ALP, CZ
VMS 282 Drama of Ancient Greece ALP, CZ
VMS 283S Filming Freedom Movements: Movies, Music, Monuments, Memory EI, W, ALP
VMS 285 Ritual, Performance, and Religion CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 286S Introduction to Digital Feminism R, STS, SS
VMS 287 German History Through Film EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 288A Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications R, ALP
VMS 288L Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications R, ALP
VMS 288S Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications R, ALP
VMS 289 Introduction to Film Studies ALP
VMS 290 Special Topics in Visual Studies
VMS 290S Special Topics in Visual Studies
VMS 290SA Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies
VMS 291 Independent Study
VMS 293 Research Independent Study R
VMS 294 Chinese Art 1900 to Present CCI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 295S Arts Entrepreneurship ALP
VMS 296 Internship in New York
VMS 296A-1 Internship in New York
VMS 298S Film Theory STS, ALP
VMS 299 Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art ALP, CZ
VMS 302 Philosophy of Mind R, CZ
VMS 303 History of Photography, 1839 to the Present CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 304 Mapping History with Geographic Information Systems STS, CZ
VMS 305S Video Journalism ALP, SS
VMS 306SA Latinx Voices in Duke, Durham and Beyond CCI, CZ
VMS 307 User Experience and User Interface Design and Development STS
VMS 308 Italian Cinema CCI, ALP
VMS 309DS Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts ALP
VMS 309S Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts ALP
VMS 310S Archives As Data: Structuring Information for Humanities Scholarship R, STS
VMS 316S Understanding Mediation CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 317S Russian Language and Culture through Film CCI, FL, STS, SS
VMS 318 Eastern Europe in Transition: Markets, Media, and the Mafia CCI, CZ, SS
VMS 319S Russian Language and Culture through Film II CCI, FL, STS, ALP, SS
VMS 320A Contemporary Russian Media CCI, EI, FL, SS
VMS 321S Writing Movies and Plays: Adaptation W, ALP
VMS 322S Motion Graphics for Film and Video STS, ALP
VMS 323S Social Movements and Social Media CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
VMS 324 Sample & Remix: Contemporary Cultural Production Across Arts & Media CCI, R, STS, ALP, CZ
VMS 325L Optics and Photonics NS
VMS 326 Introduction to Programming and User Interface Design in Unity 3D STS
VMS 326S Introduction to Programming and User Interface Design in Unity 3D STS
VMS 327S Theories of Visual and Media Studies ALP
VMS 328S Media Theory STS
VMS 331S Gender and Popular Culture CCI, W, SS
VMS 332L Virtual Museums: Theories and Methods of Twenty-First-Century Museums R, STS, ALP
VMS 332S American Independent Cinema CCI, ALP
VMS 333S Photo Workshop ALP
VMS 334 Roman Spectacle CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 335 Black Popular Culture: Black Cinema CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 336 Pilgrimage and Tourism CCI, EI, W, ALP, CZ
VMS 337 The History of Hip-Hop CCI, ALP
VMS 338S Writing the Short Film W, ALP
VMS 339S Sound for Film and Video ALP
VMS 340 Popular Representations of Black Masculinity CCI, ALP
VMS 340S Producing Docu-Fiction ALP
VMS 341S Farmworkers in North Carolina: Roots of Poverty, Roots of Change CCI, EI, CZ, SS
VMS 342S Islamic Media CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 343S Hitchcock: Master of Suspense CCI, ALP
VMS 344 Performance Art History and Theory CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 345S Dance for the Camera R, STS, ALP
VMS 346S Visual Cultures of Medicine STS, ALP
VMS 349 Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
VMS 349S Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
VMS 350S The Photobook: History and Practice CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 351 3D Modeling and Animation ALP
VMS 353 The Black Performance Tradition: Michael Jackson and Prince CCI, ALP
VMS 354S Poetic Cinema CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 355 American Dreams, American Movies ALP
VMS 355S Videogame Design and Critique STS, ALP
VMS 356S Editing for Film and Video ALP
VMS 357S Digital Storytelling and Interactive Narrative STS, W, ALP
VMS 358S Digital Durham R, STS, W, ALP
VMS 359A Introduction to Global Los Angeles: An Interdisciplinary Survey (Service-Learning) CCI, EI, ALP
VMS 360S Writing the Movie. Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen W, ALP
VMS 362S 16mm Film Production ALP
VMS 363S Time, Space and Film R, STS, ALP
VMS 364S Web Design and Narrative: Artists, Documentarians, Art Historians, and Entrepreneurs R, ALP
VMS 365S The Documentary Turn: Southern Culture EI, W, ALP, CZ
VMS 365SL Digital Art History I: New Representational Technologies
VMS 366L Theories and Practices of Data Visualization R, STS
VMS 373S The View Camera: Black and White Large Format Photography ALP
VMS 374 Artists in Healthcare: Collaborations and Complexities CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 375S Recycled Cinema ALP
VMS 376SA Berlin Film City: Movies in the Metropolis CCI, ALP
VMS 378 Chinese Buddhist Art CCI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 379S Visiting Filmmaker Master Courses: Special Topics ALP
VMS 380 Visualizing Cities: Representing Urban Landscapes, Cultures, and Environments R, STS, ALP, CZ
VMS 380SA Digital Cities and the Cartographic Imagination R, STS, CZ
VMS 381S Graphic Design in Motion ALP
VMS 382D Global Art Since 1945 CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 384S Storyworlds: The Art, Technology, and Pleasure of Narrative CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 385 Mafia at the Movies CCI, ALP
VMS 386S Documentary and Policy: How Documentary Influences Policy ALP
VMS 387S Screenwriting W, ALP
VMS 388S Black Thought and Creativity to 1865 CCI, ALP
VMS 389S Women and Visual Media Studies CCI, ALP
VMS 390 Special Topics in Visual & Media Studies
VMS 390A Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in Visual Studies
VMS 390S Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies
VMS 390T Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies: Tutorial
VMS 391 Independent Study
VMS 392 Independent Study
VMS 393 Research Independent Study R
VMS 394 Research Independent Study R
VMS 396 Graphic Design in Multimedia: Theory and Practice ALP
VMS 397L Interactive Graphics: Critical Code ALP, QS
VMS 398SA Duke in New York: New York, New York W, ALP, CZ
VMS 405S Media and Conflict CCI, EI, SS
VMS 412S Cultures of New Media STS, ALP, SS
VMS 414A Urban Fiction and Collective Imagination: Madrid Through Literature and Film CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
VMS 417S The Middle East: From Facebook to Film CCI, CZ, SS
VMS 419 Spanish Cinema from the Transition to the Present CCI, FL, ALP
VMS 419A Spanish Cinema from the Transition to the Present CCI, FL, ALP
VMS 425S Surrealism: Aesthetics and Politics FL, R, ALP
VMS 429S Historical Documentary Production EI, R, ALP, SS
VMS 432S From the Art of the Pleasure Quarters to Tokyo Pop CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 433S Photography in the Americas: War, Tourism, Art, and Protest CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
VMS 434 Experimental Sculpture and Installation Art ALP
VMS 435S Soviet Life through the Camera's Lens CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
VMS 436S Science, Technology, and Art FL, STS, ALP
VMS 438S Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and Science Fiction CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 439 Queer China CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 448S Advanced Art Research and Lab Practice
VMS 450S Narrative Projects ALP
VMS 451S Filming Art ALP
VMS 452S Animation Projects ALP
VMS 453S Cinematography II ALP
VMS 454SL Digital Art History II: New Representational Technologies Advanced
VMS 476S Archiving and Visualizing Asia: Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production CCI, R, CZ
VMS 489S Screening Europe CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 490S Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies
VMS 490T Collaborative Computational Media Project Design and Development Topics
VMS 491 Independent Study
VMS 492 Independent Study
VMS 493 Research Independent Study R
VMS 494 Research Independent Study R
VMS 495S Honors Thesis Workshop R, W, ALP
VMS 495T Collaborative Computational Media Project Design and Development R, ALP
VMS 496S Visual Arts Practice and Cinematic Arts Concentration Senior Capstone ALP
VMS 497S Advanced Visual Practice ALP
VMS 499S Senior Capstone in Visual & Media Studies CCI, R, W, ALP, CZ
VMS 502S Analog Filmmaking and Darkroom Techniques ALP
VMS 503S Graphic Ethnography: Comics as Research
VMS 505S Visual Studies from the Global South CCI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 510S (Neosentience) Body as Electrochemical Computer R, STS, ALP, NS
VMS 512S Performing Gender/Exhibiting Race R, ALP
VMS 520 Eco-Media: Studies in Planetary Futures CCI, CZ, SS
VMS 520S Eco-Media: Studies in Planetary Futures CCI, EI, CZ, SS
VMS 523S Imaging a Nation: Japanese Visual Culture 1868-1945 CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 525S Art and the Holocaust: Architecture, Art, and Cultural Politics during the Nazi Period CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 533S Live Images: Ancient and Medieval Representations of the Divine CCI, W, ALP, CZ
VMS 535S Camera Asia CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 536S Public History and Memory R, CZ
VMS 539S Queer China CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 540S Memory and Documentary Cinema in Latin America CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 545 Black Camera: Still and Moving Images EI, ALP
VMS 549S Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and SF CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 551SL Advanced Digital Art History: New Representational Technologies STS, ALP, CZ
VMS 552 Citizen Godard CCI, W, ALP
VMS 555S Black Visual Theory CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 557S Trauma in Art, Literature, Film, and Visual Culture EI, ALP, CZ
VMS 558S Business Strategies for the Arts and Artists R
VMS 559S Urbanism CCI, ALP, CZ
VMS 564S Physical Computing STS, QS
VMS 565S New Media, Memory, and the Visual Archive STS, ALP
VMS 567S Art and Markets CCI, R, ALP, SS
VMS 571S Art as Work: Valuing Labor in the Arts CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 575S Generative Media Authorship - Music, Text & Image ALP
VMS 576S Theory & Aesthetics: Roland Barthes R, W, ALP
VMS 580S Proseminar 1: Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities STS, ALP
VMS 581S Historical and Cultural Visualization Proseminar 2 STS, ALP
VMS 588S Sculpture Europe to China CCI, R, ALP, CZ
VMS 590 Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies
VMS 590S Special Topics in Visual Studies
VMS 610S Basic Concepts in Cinema Studies ALP
VMS 611S Third Cinema CCI, EI, STS, ALP, SS
VMS 612S Theories of the Image: The Image in Walter Benjamin ALP
VMS 613S Computational Media Studio in Advanced Digital Practice STS, ALP
VMS 616S China As World Picture CCI, ALP
VMS 618S Theories of the Visual CCI, ALP
VMS 620S Models: Premodern to Posthuman R, ALP, CZ
VMS 622S Film-philosophers/Film-makers STS, ALP, CZ
VMS 625S Comparative Media Studies STS, ALP
VMS 632 Questions of National Cinemas R, CZ
VMS 634S Producing Docu-Fiction ALP
VMS 635S 16mm Film Production ALP
VMS 640S Expanded Cinema: Cinema Outside the Movie Theater ALP
VMS 641SL Narrative Practice in Global Art Cinema CCI, ALP
VMS 650S Black Camera: Still and Moving Images CCI, ALP
VMS 655S Black Feminist Art & Digitality ALP
VMS 660S Games, Play, and Selfhood: Immersive Media and Extended Realities STS, ALP, SS
VMS 685S Visiting Filmmaker Master Course: Special Topics ALP
VMS 690S Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies
VMS 691 Independent Study
VMS 692 Independent Study
VMS 706 Digital Imaging
VMS 708S The Silent Film: An Introduction
VMS 709 Chinese Im/migration: Chinese Migrant Labor and Immigration to the US
VMS 710S Performance Art and Performativity: Theories and Methods
VMS 718S Sound in Cinema: Sonic Theories in Film and Media
VMS 720S Art, Media, Technology/Histories, Theories, and Practices
VMS 721S Motion Graphics for Film and Video
VMS 722S Curatorial Practices in a Global Context
VMS 729S Experimental Filmmaking
VMS 731S The Bauhaus: Architecture, Design, Politics
VMS 737S Art and History of Botany
VMS 739S Sound For Film and Video
VMS 740S Producing Docu-Fiction
VMS 741S The Symbolist Movement in the Arts and European Thought
VMS 743S Media and Mediation
VMS 745S Brutal Humanism in Postwar Austria: Bernhard, Jelinek, Haneke, Seidl
VMS 748S Advanced Art Research and Lab Practice
VMS 751S Narrative Projects
VMS 753S Cinematography II Graduate
VMS 755S Videogame Design and Critique
VMS 757S Editing for Film and Video
VMS 760S Cinematography
VMS 770S Critical Digital Humanities: Theory and Practice
VMS 772 The Middle East through Film
VMS 773S Russian Language and Culture through Film
VMS 775S Recycled Cinema
VMS 788L Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications
VMS 788S Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications
VMS 790S Special Topics in Visual and Media Studies
VMS 793 Independent Study in Visual and Media Studies
VMS 794L Interactive Graphics: Critical Code
VMS 795S Digital Art History/Computational Media Thesis Writing Workshop
VMS 796L Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum I
VMS 797L Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum II
VMS 798L Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum III
VMS 799L Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum IV
VMS 850S Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy
VMS 859S Roman Catholic Visual Piety in the Modern Era