Historian and the Visual Record

Dept. Code: 
G57
Course Number: 
2021
Course Credits: 
4
Course Instructor: 
Victoria Cain
Course Format: 
Colloquium
Offered Online: 
No

Analyzes visual media, including prints, photographs, posters, magazine illustrations, advertisements, motion pictures, and video. Pays special attention to the use of these media as sources for political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic history. Includes a curatorial component that addresses the ways in which archivists and museum professionals administer such materials.