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 330S Black Durham: Discovering Durham's Hallowed Ground through Arts 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 383 Disability Studies Meets Design: A Critical Engagement VMS 383S The Nature Film: History and Practice 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 437S Art and History of Botany 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
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