VIS coursesUC San Diego

243 courses · UC San Diego

• VIS 1 Introduction to Art Making: Two-Dimensional Practices
• VIS 2 Introduction to Art Making: Motion and Time-Based Art
• VIS 3 Introduction to Art Making: Three-Dimensional Practices
• VIS 6 Race, Gender, and Robots
• VIS 7 Movie Magic: From Méliès to Marvel
• VIS 8 Visuality and the African Diaspora
• VIS 9 Introduction to Digital Photography for Non-Majors
• VIS 10 Computing in the Arts Lecture Series
• VIS 11 Introduction to Visual Culture
• VIS 12R Race and Class in American Visual Culture
• VIS 20 Introduction to Art in Europe and America
• VIS 21A Introduction to the Art of the Americas or Africa and Oceania
• VIS 21B Introduction to Asian Art
• VIS 21C Introduction to African Art
• VIS 22 Formations of Modern Art
• VIS 22R Formations of Modern Art
• VIS 23 Seminar in Art History Methods
• VIS 30 Introduction to Speculative Design
• VIS 31 Undead Media: All Things Zombie
• VIS 32 Art, Design, and the Brain
• VIS 41 Design Communication
• VIS 42 Introduction to Creative Coding
• VIS 60 Introduction to Digital Photography
• VIS 70N Introduction to Media
• VIS 71 Introduction to Cinematography
• VIS 72 Introduction to Directing
• VIS 73 Introduction to Editing
• VIS 80 Introduction to the Studio Major
• VIS 83 Photographic History
• VIS 83R Photographic History
• VIS 84 Film History
• VIS 84B Film Aesthetics
• VIS 85A Media History
• VIS 85B Media Aesthetics
• VIS 87 First-year Seminar
• VIS 100 Introduction to Public Culture
• VIS 100A Design of Public Culture
• VIS 101 Introduction to Urban Ecologies
• VIS 101A Designing Urban Ecologies
• VIS 102 Democratizing the City
• VIS 103 Architectural Practices
• VIS 103A Contemporary Arts in South Korea
• VIS 103B Architecture and Urbanism of Korea
• VIS 103C Silk Roads: A Critical Study
• VIS 103D History of Speculative Design: Projects, Programs, and Practices
• VIS 104A Performance: Art Practice
• VIS 104B Performance: Art and Material Form
• VIS 104C Performance: Art and Public Culture
• VIS 105A Drawing: Representing the Subject
• VIS 105B Drawing: Practices and Genre
• VIS 105C Drawing: Portfolio Projects
• VIS 106A Painting: Image Making
• VIS 106B Painting: Practices and Genre
• VIS 106C Painting: Portfolio Projects
• VIS 107A Sculpture: Making the Object
• VIS 107B Sculpture: Practices and Genre
• VIS 107C Sculpture: Portfolio Projects
• VIS 108 Advanced Projects in Art
• VIS 110A Contemporary Issues and Practices
• VIS 110B Professional Practice in the Visual Arts
• VIS 110C Proposals, Plans, Presentations
• VIS 110D Visual Narrative
• VIS 110E Art in Public Spaces/Site-Specific Art
• VIS 110F Installation: Cross-Disciplinary Projects
• VIS 110G The Natural and Altered Environment
• VIS 110H Art and Text
• VIS 110I Performing for the Camera
• VIS 110K Digital Studio
• VIS 110M Studio Honors I
• VIS 110N Studio Honors II
• VIS 112 Theories and Methods
• VIS 113AN History of Criticism I: Early Modern
• VIS 113BN History of Criticism II: Early Twentieth Century (1900–1950)
• VIS 113CN History of Criticism III: Contemporary (1950–Present)
• VIS 114A Landscape and Memory
• VIS 114B The Fragment: Uses and Theories
• VIS 114GS Arts and Visual Culture in China
• VIS 117E Problems in Ethnoaesthetics
• VIS 117F Theorizing the Americas
• VIS 117G Critical Theory and Visual Practice
• VIS 120A Greek Art
• VIS 120B Roman Art
• VIS 120C Late Antique Art
• VIS 121AN Art and Experience in the Middle Ages
• VIS 121B Church and Mosque: Medieval Art and Architecture between Christianity and Islam
• VIS 121C Art and the Bible in the Middle Ages: Sign and Design
• VIS 122AN Renaissance Art
• VIS 122B Baroque: Painters, Sculptors, Architects
• VIS 122GS The City in Italy
• VIS 123B Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora
• VIS 123C Art and Visual Culture of the United States
• VIS 124BN Art and the Enlightenment
• VIS 124CN Nineteenth-Century Art
• VIS 124D Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century
• VIS 124E The Production of Nature
• VIS 124F Art in the Age of Revolutions
• VIS 124G Art and Modernity
• VIS 125A Twentieth-Century Art
• VIS 125BN Contemporary Art
• VIS 125E Faces and Powers
• VIS 125G History of Socially Engaged Art
• VIS 125GR History of Socially Engaged Art
• VIS 126AN Pre-Columbian Art of Ancient Mexico and Central America
• VIS 126BN The Art and Civilization of the Ancient Maya
• VIS 126E Indigenisms I: The Making of the Modern, Nineteenth Century to Mid-Twentieth Century
• VIS 126F Indigenisms II: Contemporary Disseminations, Neo-Avantgarde to the Present
• VIS 126HN Pacific Coast American Indian Art
• VIS 126I Southwest American Indian Art
• VIS 126J African and Afro-American Art
• VIS 126P Latin American Art: Modern to Postmodern, 1890–1950
• VIS 126Q Latin American Art: Modern to Postmodern, 1950–Present
• VIS 127B Arts of China
• VIS 127C Arts of Modern China
• VIS 127GS Issues in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
• VIS 127N Twentieth-Century Art in China and Japan
• VIS 127P Arts of Japan
• VIS 127Q Japanese Painting and Prints
• VIS 128A Topics in Premodern Art History
• VIS 128B Topics in Early Modern Art History
• VIS 128C Topics in Modern Art History
• VIS 128D Topics in Art History of the Americas
• VIS 128E Topics in Art History of Asia
• VIS 129A Seminar in Premodern Art History
• VIS 129B Seminar in Early Modern Art History
• VIS 129C Seminar in Modern Art History
• VIS 129D Seminar in Art History of the Americas
• VIS 129E Seminar in Art History of Asia
• VIS 129F Seminar in Art Theory and Criticism
• VIS 130 Special Projects in Visual Arts
• VIS 131 Special Projects in Media
• VIS 132 Installation Production and Studio
• VIS 133 Lecture Topics in Speculative Design
• VIS 133A Studio Topics in Speculative Design
• VIS 134 Introduction to 3-D Asset Design
• VIS 135 Design Research Methods
• VIS 136A Speculative Fiction Seminar
• VIS 141A Computer Programming for the Arts I
• VIS 141B Computer Programming for the Arts II
• VIS 142 Practices in Computing Arts
• VIS 143A Virtual Environments I
• VIS 143B Virtual Environments II
• VIS 145A Time- and Process-Based Digital Media I
• VIS 147A Electronic Technologies for Art I
• VIS 147B Electronic Technologies for Art II
• VIS 148 Visualizing Art Practice
• VIS 149 Seminar in Contemporary Computer Topics
• VIS 150 Landmarks of World Cinema
• VIS 150A Seminar in Film History and Theory
• VIS 151 Experimental Cinema
• VIS 151A Seminar in Media History and Theory
• VIS 152 Media in Social Context
• VIS 152D Identity through Transnational Cinemas
• VIS 155 Media Artists at Work
• VIS 156 Latino American Cinema
• VIS 157 Environmentalism in Arts and Media
• VIS 157D US Civil Rights in Art and Media
• VIS 158A Topics in Contemporary Photography
• VIS 158B Photography after 1960
• VIS 158C History of Social Documentary
• VIS 158D Black Subjects and Black Material in Photography
• VIS 159 History of Art and Technology
• VIS 160A Senior Project in Computing Arts I
• VIS 160B Senior Project in Computing Arts II
• VIS 161 Systems and Networks at Scale
• VIS 162 Speculative Science and Design Invention
• VIS 163 Design Research and Criticism
• VIS 164 Photographic Strategies: Looking and Seeing
• VIS 165 Black and White Darkroom
• VIS 165A The Photographic Print
• VIS 165B The Photographer’s Studio
• VIS 167 Social Engagement and Photography
• VIS 168 Pictorialism and Constructed Reality
• VIS 169A Photography in Exhibition and Artist Books
• VIS 169B Advanced Photographic Print
• VIS 171 Digital Cinema: Theory and Practice
• VIS 172 Motion Design and Visual Effects
• VIS 173 Introduction to Animation
• VIS 174 Media Sketchbook
• VIS 175 Editing: Theory and Practice
• VIS 176 16mm Filmmaking
• VIS 177 Scripting Strategies
• VIS 178 Sound: Theory and Practice
• VIS 179 Intermediate Projects in Media
• VIS 180 Advanced Projects in 3-D and CGI
• VIS 180A Documentary Evidence and the Construction of Authenticity in Current Media Practices
• VIS 180B Fiction and Allegory in Current Media Practices
• VIS 181 Advanced Sound and Lighting
• VIS 182 Advanced Editing
• VIS 182A Advanced Digital Photography Editing
• VIS 183 Film Production Studio Technique
• VIS 183A Strategies of Self
• VIS 183B Strategies of Alterity
• VIS 184 Advanced Scripting
• VIS 185 Senior Media Projects
• VIS 190 Design Master Studio
• VIS 194S Fantasy in Film
• VIS 196A Art History Honors Thesis I
• VIS 196B Art History Honors Thesis II
• VIS 197 Media Honors Thesis
• VIS 198 Directed Group Study
• VIS 199 Special Studies in the Visual Arts
• VIS 200 Methods and Theories
• VIS 201 Contemporary Critical Issues
• VIS 202 Art Practice
• VIS 203 Working Critique
• VIS 204 Rethinking Art History
• VIS 205 Introduction to Graduate Studies in Art Practice
• VIS 206 Seminar in Art Practice Research
• VIS 207 Working Practice for Art Practice PhDs
• VIS 208 Thesis Exhibition
• VIS 209 Thesis Writing
• VIS 211 Fact and Fiction
• VIS 212 History and Memory
• VIS 213 Public Space
• VIS 214 Performance Strategies
• VIS 215 Human Interface
• VIS 216 The Object
• VIS 217 Communities and Subcultures
• VIS 218N Imaging Selves and Others
• VIS 219 Special Topics in Art Practice/Theory
• VIS 220 Professional Practice Seminar
• VIS 234N Frames of View
• VIS 242 Theories of Media and New Media
• VIS 243 Aesthetic Theory
• VIS 244 Studies in the Relationship of Theory and Practice
• VIS 251 Seminar in Medieval Art
• VIS 252 Seminar in Renaissance Art
• VIS 254 Seminar in Modern Art
• VIS 255 Seminar in Contemporary Art
• VIS 256 Seminar in Media and New Media
• VIS 257 Seminar in Meso-American Art
• VIS 258 Seminar in Chinese Art
• VIS 259 Seminar in Latin American Art
• VIS 260 Seminar in North American Indian Art
• VIS 261 Material Culture
• VIS 262 Design Studies
• VIS 280 Workshop in Critical Writing
• VIS 281 Curatorial Practice
• VIS 295 Individual Studies for Graduate Students
• VIS 298 Directed Group Study
• VIS 299 Graduate Research
• VIS 500 Apprentice Teaching
• VIS 502 Graduate Teaching in Visual Arts