American Visual Culture

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Focuses on visual culture in relation to broad themes in modern United States history. Topics include photography and civil rights struggles, gender and visual politics, environmental images, and debates over war and memory. The course emphasizes research methods and the value of images for historical and interdisciplinary scholarship. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Not open to students with credit for HIST-CUST-MDST 4090Y.