2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog
Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)

HIS 462 American Visual Culture


3 credits

This course will explore the ways that visual culture illuminates and alters our understanding of major themes and eras in U.S. history. Drawing upon popular culture, objects, films, monuments, architecture, and other artworks, this course explores the ways in which history can be taught and learned through images. The course investigates the ways in which different visual media documented, articulated, and embodied social, cultural, and political issues, ideas, and identities from the American Revolution through the end of the Cold War.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of one of the following: HIS 101, HIS 102, HIS 103, HIS 104, HIS 180, or HNR 200



Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)