TITLE:  VISION AND THE MODERN WORLD
TR 4:00-5:15 BH 138
Is vision the sense that defines our modern world, as many people have
argued?  How and to what effects does vision function in the modern
world?  This course will offer beginning university students the
opportunity to think and write about the ways that vision and
technologies of vision such as photography, television, and film have
developed during the modern phase of the world's history, and the
various roles that they play in today's visual culture.  It will ask
student to engage with a variety of interesting, complex, yet accessible
texts from a variety of disciplines in our course's ongoing quest to
understand the ways vision and visual technologies have been used to
construct social differences and hierarchies between people, create and
maintain social control, and document history.  Further, the course will
invite students to think and writing about the roles that vision plays
in their own lives, and to consider the impact of visual technologies on
their sense of themselves as individuals, members of variously defined
social bodies, and citizens.